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...from the scraps there emerges a respectable degree of shape. Since Love's Labour's Lost has been known to run as long as five hours, this version must have undergone judicious cutting, changes are, it could without bleeding take a good deal more. But the pervasive freedom from fuss enlivens the script's excesses simply by showcasing them. The bare black stage, with two garden swings intelligently breaking the monotony, does not distract; neither do Martha Eddison's very effective costumes, for the most part just baggy bright smocks with cumberbunds for the nobility, or the occasional sharp-edged...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Labor of Love | 8/3/1982 | See Source »

BRIGHTON. England--A sharply divided British Labour Party narrowly re-elected moderate Denis Healey as deputy leader yesterday. Healey defeated left-wing challenger Tony Benn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: British Labour | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

Moderates feared that a Benn victory would cause further defections to the centrist Social Democratic Party, formed in March by four former Labour Cabine members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: British Labour | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

...Labour Party leader Michael Foot was not contested and retained his seat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: British Labour | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

...leader of Britain's opposition never really talks about himself, only his relations with his personal all-stars. But that doesn't mean Foot's own character doesn't shine through; it does, and impressively indeed. Coming from the Labour party in Britain, which has aligned itself far more with social reform than have America's labor unions in the last decade, Foot not surprisingly demonstrates a broad compassion and concern for personal liberties. And his alliance with disarmament forces and opposition to Western chauvinism in international politics are patent...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Homage to the Future | 9/25/1981 | See Source »

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