Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years, visiting the neighborhood Blockbuster to rent a movie was a bit like watching Geraldo Rivera open Al Capone's vault. Great expectations gave way to dejection as you learned that any valuables inside were long gone...
Maine attorneys and advocates for the poor have reacted skeptically to the program. Christopher St. John, executive director of the Maine Center for Economic Policy, says asking poor working families to take on another job is an imposition. "These families need every ounce of their effort to pay for rent and food," he says. "An extra job could be the straw that breaks the camel's back." Others fear that if the IRS rules the labor is revenue, some people may lose some of their Medicaid, food stamps or earned-income tax credit. To avoid that problem, hospital attorneys insisted...
...Orange. Which makes this a clockwork lemon. Halloween: H20, directed by Dawson's Creek's Steve Miner from a story idea by Williamson, sends Jamie Lee Curtis once more against her masked nemesis, in a retread of John Carpenter's 1978 classic. You loved the original; why not just rent or remember...
...years ago) but also for the British musical in general. Though Brit-produced extravaganzas from Cats to Miss Saigon have dominated the world's musical stages for nearly two decades, now it's the Americans who have reclaimed the lead. The West End is filled with U.S. imports like Rent and Chicago (and Ragtime and The Lion King haven't even applied for passports yet). The one new British hit of the season is a stage version of that very American pop artifact from the '70s, Saturday Night Fever. The show, adapted by Nan Knighton and directed by Arlene Phillips...
...British historian Alan Bullock's early interpretation, for example, had Hitler as, among other things, a cunning, low-rent charlatan. The other great British Hitler explainer, H.R. Trevor-Roper, constructed a Fuhrer on the grand, demonic scale: a Great Bad Man theory of history. Between the poles of Bullock and Trevor-Roper, historians, psychologists and others have brought an anguished ingenuity to trying to account for the monster or, in the newest scholarly and academic literature, to dismiss the old "Hitler-centric" theories in favor of larger abstractions (the German character, Christian anti-Semitism...