Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to an e-mail circulated by PSLM in advance of the meeting, Holmes Realty Trust plans to knock down 20 stores and restaurants in Central Square in order to build "scores of high rent apartments, chain store retail outlets and a mall of sorts...
...Sadly I think it's kind of inevitable," said John Berosh, a store manager at the 1369 Coffee House. "But when it happens in your neighborhood and your personal apartment rent goes up, it's hard...
...addressed every theme and genre that Harry touches upon better in the past: Want romantic comedy with a hint of pathos? Try Annie Hall or Manhattan. Existentialist dilemmas mixed with murder? Shadows and Fog or Manhattan Murder Mystery should keep you busy. Science fiction meets wacky social satire? Rent Sleeper. Dead-on, perfect drama? Crimes and Misdemeanors and Husbands and Wives are a sure shot. Allen's even made better films in Harry's own kind-of-autobiographical-but-think-again vein: for an alternately funny and moving spin on Woody's artistic and personal angst, see Stardust Memories. Show...
...Life Last season was a dismal one for Broadway musicals--the off year between Rent and The Lion King--but it did produce one underrated gem, this tale of seedy Times Square before it got Disneyfied. Complain about the cliched book if you must, but few musicals are this hard-edged and slam-bang entertaining at the same time. And few songwriters can still turn out showstoppers like Cy Coleman...
...Start with a known quantity: It's a Wonderful Life (1951). Odds are you'll miss the ONE time Ted Turner lets it out of the box, so rise up and rent. Trivia note: Frank Faylen and Ward Bond play the cabby and the cop (or is it the cop and the cabby?). Their names? Ernie and Bert. Jim Henson was not sued...