Word: rent
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...wants to promote a greater city than she will not force this issue upon the University. As a member of the more conservative local party, she understands that the real estate market functions most efficiently when it is under private ownership and unburdened by price controls. Massachusetts has abolished rent-control; so we hope that she abides...
...Cambridge City Council Committee on Housing wants Harvard to sell 700 former rent-controlled apartments at "below-market rates...
...Rent may not be quite the groundbreaker, or have the melodic richness, of Hair or Jesus Christ Superstar. But it is the most exuberant and original American musical to come along this decade. Larson has updated La Boheme and set it among the artists, addicts, prostitutes and street people of New York City's East Village. In place of Puccini's Mimi, dying of tuberculosis, is Larson's Mimi (Daphne Rubin-Vega), a drug-addicted dancer in an S&M club who is suffering from AIDS. The Rudolfo she falls for is Roger (Adam Pascal), an HIV-positive rock singer...
AIDS is the shadow hovering over all the people in Rent, but the musical doesn't dwell on illness or turn preachy; it is too busy celebrating life and chronicling its characters' efforts to squeeze out every last drop of it. Tom Collins (Jesse L. Martin), a gay teacher, hooks up with Angel (Wilson Jermaine Heredia), a high-spirited transvestite. Joanne (Fredi Walker), a lesbian attorney, gets together with Maureen (Idina Menzel), a performance artist who has just broken up with Mark (Anthony Rapp), a video filmmaker who acts as the musical's narrator and guide...
Unboarded from the 6:30 a.m. flight to New York City because the Manchester, New Hampshire, airport got fogged in, Peter Jennings hauled himself to the Hertz counter to rent a car. As he headed out to the parking lot, the man behind the counter talked into the intercom. "He's on his way." Pause. "Just give him the best thing we've got. He's Platinum...