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...that rent control may not be the best or the only way to protect low and moderate income people...Without better data, it is impossible to insist on rent control and condo controls in exactly their current forms." Saying that to a room full of tenant activists was not wise; better for a fundamentalist preacher to tell his flock that the whale didn't really swallow Jonah. Enacting rent control in 1970 was a tremendous struggle; maintaining it since then has been just as hard. And tenants have to look no farther than Somerville--where rents doubled and tripled when...
...behavior, at once coltish and wise, is an implicit commentary on his lugubrious single-mindedness. Lucie is a creature, as Rohmer sees her, of impulse and open air, while Anne is seen mostly in her cramped apartment, which can be seen as the logical extension of her cramped spirit. This, alas, is something François does not notice. The most the movie concedes him is the possibility that by sorting through his many wrong assumptions about the essentially innocent man he was following, he may have taken a small step toward extricating himself from his deluding passion. But like...
...solution to the riots, Browne said "you just can't throw money at the problem. Wise management of the cities is needed...
...breaks that encouraged investment in Lowell meant the plant didn't go up in some other town. And, by the same token, any concessions to profit that can be made to keep industry in America means someone overseas will go without. Like many embraces more ardent than wise, this passion for industry will likely end up with someone getting screwed; if concessions must be made, they should be made cynically. It's all right to bat one's eyelashes at that rich computer company, but a roll in the hay is no trivial decision...
...Esterhaus (Michael Conrad), a mountain of meat and gristle with a smile that could crack ice, is briefing his charges on the new day's agenda. "I'd like to interject a personal observation," he announces. "It seems that we've reached a new low, graffiti-wise, in both the men's and women's lavatories. Now, in an organization of mature men and women, I suggest that we clean up our act . . . our vocabulary . . . at the very least our spelling. To the anonymous bathroom poet, breast is generally spelled breAst. All right...