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...Believing Church, in which the action takes place. Concentration on what happens to the bread itself, says Dutch Capuchin Luchesius Smits, leads to such distortions of piety as the little girl's fear that eating ice cream right after her first Communion would "make Jesus' head cold." Belgian Dominican Edward Schillebeeckx points out that the Aristotelian distinction between sub stance and accident "has been philosophically untenable since Kant...
Sake for Carpenters. Last week mail sorters in Brussels staged a wildcat strike to protest the Belgian postal authorities' insistence that they occasionally work overtime and that they forgo the traditional extra leaves on top of summer vacation. Travelers on a British European Airways flight departing London Airport for Paris sat impatiently aboard their plane for a full hour one recent morning while porters took a coffee break before loading the baggage. In Ireland a three-week-old strike of gravediggers, who demanded longer vacations, is forcing mourners to bury their own dead. In Australia, 100 Queensland packinghouse workers...
...become more precious than goods, German manufacturers wink at pilferage that costs them an estimated $1 billion a year. Dutch housebuilders commonly pay their men "black salaries"-10% to 20% above the legal limit-or lose them; last year 18 small Dutch textile mills closed for lack of workers. Belgian coal companies, which fly in weekly planeloads of Turkish miners, cry that Dutch and German labor poachers steal their recruits almost as fast as they arrive...
...spread on the studio floor. His brush uncurls a reptilian ripple of paint that twines and insinuates itself into a snakepit of color. "All I try to do is let out the monsters inside me," he says, "the monsters we all are." Shades of Jackson Pollock? No, it is Belgian-born Artist Pierre Alechinsky speaking, and at 37 he is already a latter-day saint of action painting...
...Pens. The monsters that uncurl on his floor are puckishly reminiscent of the grimacing gremlins, eerie puppets and masked mobs unleashed by fellow Belgian James Ensor. As his current exhibition at Manhattan's Jewish Museum shows, Alechinsky's beasts seem to wriggle out of the North European imagination, with flickery fingers, eyes bugging like fried eggs, toothy grins waning like quartering moons, all struggling through a welter of abstract interlace. Even when Alechinsky signs one of his lithographs, he cannot resist adding a few devilish flourishes with...