Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parade also offers evidence of the city's shift to the political left since its last celebration. Grass-roots activist groups like the Cambridge Eviction Free Zone and the Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee took part, a reminder of the stunning abolition of rent control--for decades a liberal rallying cry--which state voters handed to Cambridge residents...
...says Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles told him, "Given that [PBH] accepts Harvard's liability insurance and given that [PBH] lives in a Harvard building rent-free, [it] incurs and opens Harvard to a certain amount of risk in [its] activity...
...shiny, Brady-ish, we-are-a-family theme was undermined in unintended and sometimes ironic ways. An opening-night song was from Rent, a musical featuring a drag queen with aids, which aggressively rejects middle-class platitudes. Jesse Jackson, who has spent three decades in public life acting almost as though he had no family, suddenly carted out some of his kids for an appearance on a Larry King show in which he praised the maternal attributes of his usually invisible wife. Gore, in his speech recalling his sister's death from lung cancer, neglected to mention that he continued...
...Rent does end on a high note: R.-and-B. superstar Stevie Wonder, who doesn't appear in the stage version, delivers an uplifting version of Seasons of Love, one of the show's signature pieces. Arif Mardin, who produced the album, says Melissa Etheridge and k.d. lang were also approached to guest-star on the CD, but Wonder had the only schedule that allowed it. He's all that's needed anyway. His rendition of Seasons of Love is soulful, disarming--and something you haven't already heard even if you saw the show on Broadway...
...years ago, while he was passionately setting New York City's East Village Bohemian life to song in Rent, the late composer Jonathan Larson helped support himself by creating music that had little to do with the world of the tongue-pierced. He was a children's songwriter, composing music for Sesame Street as well as a number of tunes for kids' book-cassettes, including one based on Steven Spielberg's An American Tail...