Word: franco-belgian
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...genially subversive Franco-Belgian Ma Vie en Rose, the town where Ludo and his family live is cheerily color-coordinated (each garage door is painted a different pastel), but the emotions that the boy's cross-dressing provokes are darker. Everyone goes instantly agog. Wives scold; husbands threaten. Schoolboys turn into bullies, ready to take the natural law into their own hands. The film, directed by Alain Berliner from an original script by Chris vander Stappen, has the scheme of a socially fretful TV movie. Yet at heart, Ma Vie en Rose is a delightful comedy, both in its buoyant...
...outposts bristled with antitank guns, machine guns and barbed wire, and boasted concrete walls 10 ft. thick as well as supply depots 100 ft. underground. To the north of the Ardennes Forest, which was only lightly fortified because the French considered it "impenetrable," a "Little Maginot Line" guarded the Franco-Belgian border, but the French planned to march into neutral Belgium themselves at the first sign of a German invasion...
...Jacques Brel, a long-running hit off-Broadway, is a musical review, on the surface all sophistication and brightness, under its skin just a touch of pathos. Jacques Brel-yeah, no kidding, they're really not fooling-is a 40-year-old Franco-Belgian troubadour. He wrote the songs on which the show is based-all twenty-five of them. A cast of four (out of a rotating pool of seven) performs nightly; not only do they sing, but also they provide, thanks to director Moni Yakim, a bit of mime and dance...
...negotiating to sell a $118 million reactor to Spain, has offered to pay a quarter of the cost of it, and in return will get a quarter of the power that it produces. Westinghouse invaded heavily protected French territory, got the job of building the reactor for a Franco-Belgian plant in the Ardennes by promising to subcontract much of the work to local firms. In order to profit from the German market, Westinghouse has also licensed Siemens to use its reactor patents; G.E. has closed a similar deal with Germany's A.E.G...
Under the black slag heaps and airborne soot of the Franco-Belgian borderland lie coal mines that plunge deep-2,000, 2,500, 3,000 ft.-into the bowels of the earth, using obsolete equipment and backbreaking labor to eke out small hauls from old veins. Close by the small town of Marcinelle is the mine called Amercoeur, the "Bitter Heart." There one morning last week, 302 miners-115 of them Belgians, 139 Italians-dropped 3,105 ft. underground in their steel-cage elevators to their daily jobs at the coal face. Above ground the miners' families, mostly poor...