Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rent debuts on Broadway...
...expected him to play the victim in a murder-suicide, and even after news broke of the deaths, they invariably used the word happy to describe him. For good reason. He had the summer off to spend with his family at a Malibu vacation home he was about to rent; his sitcom, NewsRadio, was renewed two weeks ago; and the film Small Soldiers, in which he has a sizable role, is due out in July...
...never right. And the location was usually off as well. Early in the century, when young talent such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, Henri Matisse, Gertrude Stein and Gene Kelly flocked to Paris, making it the world capital of artistic ferment, Glimp set up his atelier in Helsinki. "The rent's cheap" was his cryptic explanation to friends and admirers who for years vainly urged him to relocate. By the time he did, Paris turned out to be occupied by the Nazis and all the cafes had switched from vin rouge to beer and spaetzle, which Glimp despised...
...rent control gave people a very specificfocus and a lot of leverage over city politicsthat is not there now," he continues...
...demise of rent control and the inabilityof rent control advocates to reach a meaningfulaccommodation--because of the stridency of some ofthe tenant advocates--means that serious damage tothe cause of advocacy has been done, in manyrespects," Koocher says...