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...EVEN THE BEST families, there are bound to be a few bucktoothed, cross eyed mutts. Among William Shakespeare's dramatic brood, Love's Labour's Lost is one of the runts of the litter an overlong, obscurely written, not too funny nerd of a play...
...those wise enough never to have read Love's Labour's Lost, behold Shakespeare's least complicated plot: King Ferdinand of Navarre (Thomas Derrah) has secluded himself in a private retreat, where for three years he has vowed he and his three attendants shall lead a virtuous life (sans dames). But love will find a way, this time from a visit of state by the beauteous Princess of France (Cherry Jones) and her ladies-in-waiting. Quicker than you can say "voulez-vous coucher avec moi" the king and his nobleman have discarded their celibacy like last year's underwear...
Buchwald, who also volunteered his services as auctioneer a year ago, will oversee the sale of the more unusual items, such as a "walk on" in the ARI's production of "Love's Labour's Lost" and a tennis game on Martha's Vineyard against himself and Brustein...
Even before the Norman conquest in 1066, Saxon tribes in England cut their silver pennies into two. The halfpenny (pronounced hay-penny) was first minted in 1279. It went on to become a symbol of penuriousness. In Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost, Costard insults an acquaintance for his "halfpenny purse of wit." Now, because of inflation, the tiny (approximately ⅝in.) coin costs more to make than its value of 6?. Last week the Chancellor of the Exchequer said that the halfpenny will not be recognized as legal tender after this year...
...gamble would have paid off, he continues, were it not for the Falkland Islands War of 1982. "Instead of taking votes from all parties, we were only able to take them from one [Labour]," he remarks. "We succeeded in getting almost as many votes as the Left...