Word: rental
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Despite its casual tradition, Kleiler expressed interest in bringing the Rear Window to a more permanent home, on one screen in a multi-screen complex for example. However, the large rental fees asked by larger houses to utilize their equipment (as much as $400 per night) make such plans unfeasible at the moment. The organization's limited budget would necessitate a more mainstream repertory program to pay the fees of such venues. Also, Kleiler remains committed to the Rear Window's more or less permanent home in Brookline, providing alternative programming for the area at the Brookline Arts Center...
...only fat girls call fourth grade lovers, only lonely, sweaty, sexually confused consumers of Harlequins, bon bons, and small teddy-bears and poodles track down, call up, and invite up the fourth grade boy from next door. It was a certainty that floated in our rental car with malignant intensity, putting Dave on the defensive and the speedometer at 55. Suddenly Dave wasn't in a hurry to get there...
...taxpayers. "I thought I could come up with a dream philanthropist," he says. After canvassing the candidates, Clint found his man: "The guy I talked into it was me." Last December he closed the deal for about $5 million and has begun modest restoration work on some of the rental cabins. Says Mac McDonald, managing editor of the Carmel Pine Cone: "What really surprised people was that he bought it to preserve it." Concedes Staunch Foe Swain: "It was a magnificent thing that...
...savings account of just $20,000? For Townsend, the film's director and star, a strong entrepreneurial urge overcame weak financing. When the director's cash ran out, he simply started using his two credit cards. Then he applied for twelve more of them to pay for film, costumes, rental equipment and food. He even paid his actors by filling up their gas tanks and charging it. His artful dodging finally paid off when he showed a rough version of the film to Producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr., whose independent movie company decided to give Townsend the financial backing to finish...
Councilor Alice Wolf noted that the past decade's censuses have shown a steady decrease in the city's population, from about 95,000 people in 1980 to about 87,000 in last year's census. "It seems almost impossible to me that there would be more rental units now than there were then. Where would they put them?" she asked, adding that condominium conversions have reduced the number of rentals tremendously in recent years...