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...average gap between earned income and the cost of making music has risen from $5 per listener in 1971 to $26.17. Further, government support, after rising in the '70s and early '80s, has trailed off, falling more than 4% in the past seven years. "Everybody is hurting," says Joseph Kluger, president of the Philadelphia Orchestra, whose subscriber base has fallen the past two years...
...SHERIFF OF NOTTINGHAM by Richard Kluger (Viking; $23). Robin Hood has only a minor role in this novel of 13th century England. The Sheriff, maligned by history and Hollywood, is shown to be a dutiful official confronting personal and moral dilemmas and the origins of constitutional government. A real parchment turner, richly imagined and beautifully written...
...life's work. Caro is one of the best known of a small breed of long-distance writers who appear from their orbits of research to offer big books on big subjects. Among others in the select group, most of whom tend to be, like Caro, journalist-scholars: Richard Kluger, author of the civil rights classic Simple Justice (1976), and J. Anthony Lukas, whose Common Ground (1985), a social history of ethnic Boston, was well worth the wait...
...percentage. Says instructor and center co-owner Karen Shaffer, 43, who bears a striking resemblance to Carol Burnett: "We talk about boobs a lot." Jazzercise is also an hour of dancing, something that women seem to like a good deal more than men do. Says writer and editor Phyllis Kluger, 51, a six-year Jazzercise veteran: "I enjoy dancing, and, if I come here, I don't have to think, 'Oh, my husband never takes me out dancing...
...some, the sharing has fostered deeper relationships. The class has nurtured regulars through pregnancy, divorce and surgery. Says Kluger: "If someone says, 'Hey, I'm getting married next month,' people start asking 'Have you bought your dress yet?' An emotion can coalesce around that kind of thing." When Mattia announced she was getting married, a couple of the regulars threw a swinging bachelorette party at Chippendale's, the male stripper club over in New York City. Says the newlywed: "We rented a limousine. We partied all the way in and all the way back." They also brought back pictures...