Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eating yummy Pane Romano avec Nutella that they serve at the Parisian cafe in Holyoke Center? Never. So maybe I should shop at Diesel, develop an accent, and let my attitude skyrocket. Or I could go a step further and do it the real way: take a semester off, rent a flat in London, and acquire a taste for Prada and Versace...
...considering all of the publicsquabbles--Radcliffe charging Harvard for rent touse Byerly Hall, Harvard claiming Radcliffe shouldnot insist upon an official role in the lives ofundergraduate women--a united Harvard-Radcliffeis, frankly, novel...
...resident of Oxford Street reported that on Sept. 13 a person from whom she was subletting the apartment took money for rent from her but did not turn it over to the real estate broker...
...among the much maligned MTV/Nintendo generation (that's us), the level of interest in baseball is not as tepid as the baseball punditocracy seems to believe. The diamonds continue to fill with little leaguers in the spring. Fathers still bring their sons--and daughters--to games. People still rent "Field of Dreams." Other sports may have gained in popularity, but it is a fallacy to assume this has come at baseball's expense. It is possible (at least theoretically) to be both a fan of baseball and a fan of another sport. So why the apocalyptic commentary...
There may still be an American audience for McInerney's style of social commentary. A musical version of Bright Lights, Big City is scheduled to debut in January at the New York Theater Workshop, which also produced Rent. It opens with dancers popping out of bathroom stalls and singing I Love Drugs: "I love drugs/ And everything they do./ Don't you?/ I do." McInerney says it was the catchy songs that persuaded him to go ahead with the production. "At first I was like, 'Does the world really need this?' But then I heard the music and I said...