Sweaty Funk Department

(This article appeared on page A27 of the Nov. 8, 2005, edition of the NY Times. I'm using a link from a blog instead of from the Times itself, so as to avoid frustrating future readers who don't subscribe to the Times's irritating new "Select" service. In fact, from now on, whenever possible, I will use non-Times links to blog items from the NY Times for that reason.)