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...culture work for the masses, there's a certain cognitive dissonance involved in shelling out a significant amount of cash to an upscale theater like the Wilbur in order to watch dusty young people in work clothes dance on a paintsplashed stage. Like last season's dominant theatrical event, Rent the show provides the slightly eerie aesthetic of the glamorously rebellious youth and zero-budget art--an image which doesn't hold up when the viewer's gaze drifts from the stage to the well-heeled, occasionally slightly puzzled-looking middle-aged audience. A ticket to the show will cost...

Author: By Susannah R. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eat This, Michael Flatley: 'Stomp' Rolls In | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

...verdict? Well, if you're just dying for a movie about an international man of mystery, go rent Austin Powers. Yeah, baby, yeah...

Author: By Scott E. Brown, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Stupidity, Sexism Plague a Lifeless 'Jackal' | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

...council also approved $1,425 to rent a tent and a power generator for its sound system this year's Yalegate. The Yale gate, open to all Harvard undergraduates, will include a barbecue, with food provided by the Yale Dining Services, and music...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Decides Yalegate, Ivy Ties | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...that sat atop the nation's hit parade. But with the advent of rock 'n' roll, pop and show music diverged. Though a stray Broadway hit might get radio airplay (Don't Cry for Me, Argentina), and a whiff of something like rock occasionally stirs the Great White Way (Rent), Broadway became a separate and self-contained musical domain, irrelevant to the most creative musicians of the rock generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: THE NEW SONDHEIMS? | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

MOSCOW: The Kremlin may not yet be for sale, but it certainly appears to be up for rent. And the scramble to buy influence inside there claimed another casualty Wednesday when Boris Yeltsin dismissed Boris Berezovsky, one of the country's most powerful men, amidst a power struggle with Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Chubais and other members of Yeltsin?s government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tycoon Turmoil Touches Kremlin | 11/5/1997 | See Source »

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