Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City are demanding rent increases averaging 26.5%. In Manhattan, rents have been rising an average of 31%, and "horror case" increases of 60% are not unheard of. On top of the boosts, many leases now provide for "automatic" raises of 5% or more a year and further hikes whenever real estate taxes rise. Some landlords offer only two-year leases instead of the standard three-year contracts...
...well as three-or four-month rental "concessions." Now there is a desperate housing shortage. While the rental vacancy rate for the nation is 5.4%, it is 1.2% for New York City. The landlords, hardly a charitable lot, can get together fairly easily and exploit the shortage because 250 real estate firms own 80% of the city's 600,000 noncontrolled apartments...
...wide-screen way that he made famous as boss of 20th Century-Fox, Spyros P. Skouras once wired a troubled friend: "NO MARINER EVER DIS TINGUISHED HIMSELF ON A SMOOTH SEA." Now, at 75, the man who launched Titanic is in the midst of a real-life sea story. Skouras and his 45-year-old son, Spyros S., are becoming maritime moguls, and the sailing seems smooth...
Fosse the director is sometimes redeemed by Fosse the choreographer. But it is the score however, that remains the show's real strength. Cy Coleman's hip-flip music flows freely from pure ballad (Where Am I Going?) to Bachish parody (Rhythm of Life). Dorothy Fields, 63, won an Oscar for the lyrics of The Way You Look Tonight back in 1936. She may win another for her insistence on writing wittily for the characters instead of warily for the charts...
...REAL Boston After Dark-- the newspaper that makes Mindich glow -- first published on March 2, 1966, with a circulation of 25,000. 'Students wanted listings properly done," Lewis said. "And we felt we would sell ads to support ourselves." They have; advertising has tripled each year of BAD's existence. The regular column was continued in HarBus for the rest of that year, while BAD attracted its own circle of writers. "We offer great possibilities for bright young writers," Lewis said. "Our critics are more widely read than those of any other Boston paper." And "these young critics are often...