Word: rent
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Nearly two years after a state-wide referendum abolished rent control in Massachusetts cities, including Cambridge, the government's protective provisions have finally reached their...
...Vancouver this summer, Rosemary Omuga had other things on her mind. Since testing positive for HIV in 1992, the Kenyan mother of four has lost both her job as a midwife and her home. Today she barely earns enough to keep her children alive and cover her $12 monthly rent on a tin-roof shack in one of Nairobi's most fetid slums. Treating her illness is low on her list of priorities. In a good week, when she gets paid to give talks about AIDS to employees of the local railway company, she manages to scrimp enough...
This is curiously refreshing. So is the notion that a studio would lavish a huge budget on a movie whose basic business is consciously to satirize a genre that until recently tended to be low-rent and pretty much self-satirizing. Maybe this is an all too conspicuous waste of precious cinematic resources. But you have to admire everyone's chutzpah: the breadth of Burton's (and writer Jonathan Gems') movie references, which range from Kurosawa to Kubrick; and above all their refusal to offer us a single likable character. Perhaps they don't create quite enough deeply funny earthlings...
...RENT (the musical). Even if author-composer Jonathan Larson had not died just weeks before its off-Broadway opening, Rent would have hit like a thunderclap. A rock update of La Boheme set in the age of AIDS, it brimmed with energy, lyric intelligence and streetwise spirit. If not quite another Hair (more memorable melodies would have helped), Rent brought the old-fashioned musical resoundingly into the '90s. Then it moved to Broadway, won Tonys and...(see below...
...reading period that requires the audience to help design the set. And while I would never stop encouraging students to go into Boston for a night on the town to see a professional show--I, too, have joined the proud tradition of Crimson editors crying at the production of "Rent" at the Schubert--we have an amazingly talented theater community here at Harvard. Help fill the audience at the many shows this coming semester, and prove that it does not take Casino Night or house block grants to bring students...