Word: labouring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...switched gears with a role in Kenneth Branagh's film of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. Two years later, while playing Elaine in a Broadway production of The Graduate, Silverstone had dinner with Miss Match creator Darren Star (Sex and the City). "Alicia has the stuff that comediennes of the '30s and '40s had," says Star. "She is very likable, and it comes from a real place." Silverstone was drawn by Star's track record of complex female characters and the appeal of playing someone who "goes around sprinkling love dust on everybody." Indeed...
...real loser from that evidence was Hoon, who had already claimed he had nothing to do with the way his officials outed Kelly to journalists. Hutton will report by December. But Blair, who has slumped at the polls, starts fighting back this week, with a fateful speech to the Labour Party's annual conference...
...truth, his affectation of Roman customs has not endeared him to his people. He is, they complain, more Roman than Greek. They, for their own part, continue to labour under the misapprehension that they hold a special place in the civilized world—why, we Romans are still regarded as barbarians by these people; a people who cling to their glorious past, and, in so doing, fail to recognise this, the late evening of their prominence...
...Omen For Blair U.K. Tony Blair's Labour Party lost one of its safest seats to the Liberal Democrats in a parliamentary by-election in the London suburb of Brent East. The 29% swing against Labour was the largest for almost a decade. The vote came amid the inquiry into the suicide of weapons expert David Kelly and mounting frustration over Blair's policy on Iraq. The opposition Conservative party came in a poor third...
...pull the wool over the media's eyes?' They think they're better than politicians and that people in politics are all liars. I think that's very dangerous." Campbell speaks with the zeal of a convert; he's a former tabloid reporter who jumped officially to the Labour Party after Blair became its leader in 1994. But in this case he may have the weight of evidence on his side, since Britain's top spies appear to be backing Campbell's insistence that although he did suggest some small changes to the dossier text, they kept control...