Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lucy Parsons is currently involved in a desperate struggle for its home. Like the evil East Village landlord who tries to evict Roger and Mimi in "Rent," Holmes Realty Trust wants to put the beloved bookstore on the street in order to build an expensive housing and office complex that will do nothing to benefit the people of Central Square. But Lucy Parsons, its volunteers (there is only one paid employee) and its fans have mobilized. Rallies! Protests! Antagonism! Strife! Ah, la boheme! Puccini would be proud...
...poor are worrying as always about their daily bread. A lucky man might earn 4,000 dinars a month, the price of a kilo of meat. Families get by on soup and rice, for lunch and dinner. Women in the streets peddle rings and bracelets to help pay rent; children beg everywhere, offering a few pathetic sticks of incense or just a sad look on their haggard faces. Middle-class families long ago sold off their television sets, rugs and extra clothes; now they flog basic necessities like bedsteads and chairs. One grimy apartment overlooking Martyrs Square contains nothing...
...urges you to rent this one. Please. But if you don't rewind . . . KAPUT...
...Diff'rent Strokes" and "Webster:" Who do they think they're kidding? Wealthy, white paternalism (complete with cool pad) meets needy black child...
...Diff'rent Strokes:" "What `chu talkin' `bout Willis...