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...leading Britain's newspaper revolution, Shah and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher created the climate for the rebellion. In the early 1980s, Thatcher's government passed two laws that severely clipped union powers. No longer could workers summon other unions to support a strike, nor did employees have to belong to a particular union in order to hold their jobs. Most important, the courts could levy heavy fines and freeze the assets of unions that flouted the new rules. Shah tested the laws in 1983, when several printers walked off their jobs at his plant in northern England; after a violent...
...once said about his change in political loyalties: "I am born in the upper class but I belong to the labor movement. I have come to join the labor movement by working for the working class on its own conditions and by adhering to a movement which desires liberty, equality and fraternity between people...
...first of all concerned with the people who belong to the same Jewish movement I do," he says. "At the same time, I cannot forget the prisoners with whom I spent so many hard years and who continue suffering. It's my obligation now to remind people in the West of the fate of people like Andrei Sakharov...
...want prehistoric portrayals of women from comic strips. I'll turn to anthologies, to Dagwood and Blondie, and other concoctions of the '50s. They don't belong on my breakfast table in 1986. This kind of nonsense is enough to make me think that all men are loathsome...and I say that with a smile on my face...
Milbank has a fine eye for social comment. Her heart may belong to purists like Madeleine Vionnet or wits like Lagerfeld, but who are the most influential designers? High on her list would be Molyneux, Adrian, Givenchy and Lauren--because of the way they dressed show-biz stars. Molyneux popularized the slinky chic of the '30s with his costumes for Gertrude Lawrence in Private Lives. Adrian, a West Coast designer snubbed by the fashion establishment, camouflaged Joan Crawford's broad shoulders by exaggerating them and produced the dominant look of the '40s. When Jacqueline Kennedy brought elegant dressing...