Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...today, two years after a state-wide referendum eliminated municipal rent control regulations, only Bologna can afford...
...known universe, as you might have heard, is going digital. LPs gave way to CDs. Direct satellite is eroding cable. But the TV you watch and the movies you rent are still grainy old analog formats crying out for replacement...
With King of the Hill, Judge's affinity has won out. Here he depicts low-rent suburbia far less brutally than he has with Beavis & Butt-head, a show set in a vast nowhere starring two cretins who do nothing, absorb nothing and stand for even less. No one on King of the Hill is skewered as savagely as educated elitists, whom Judge characterizes as blind bubbleheads incapable of seeing the world beyond their screen savers...
...high culture dead in America? Or have TIME's aesthetic taste buds gone dead? If all you can offer for "The Best Theater of 1996" is Rent as an updated opera, then American culture has indeed taken a dive. And as far as music is concerned, what happened to the brilliant performances of Wagner's Ring at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, or other noteworthy performances? How can watered-down rap as performed by the Fugees define what our culture should aspire to? Taste notwithstanding, you have completely ignored whole artistic genres. Your selection of the best should cover more...
Both the Tasty Grill and the now-defunct Wursthaus would be destroyed, although the bank has offered to rent room in its new building to the 80-year old Tasty...