Word: francos
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...TAMING OF THE SHREW. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor frolic through Shakespeare's salty salvo in the war between the sexes, expertly directed by Italy's Franco Zeffirelli, who mixes bawd and brio on a Renaissance palette...
...breakthrough in European technology has come in private industry -- in large supranational firms, Heath said. As examples he pointed to Franco-British cooperation on the supersonic jet Concorde, and the joint effort of England and Belgium to develop atomic reactors. These are cases, he said, in which the scale of the undertaking makes it impossible for one nation to handle the entire load by itself...
...Taming of the Shrew. "We intend to make Shakespeare as successful a screenwriter as Abby Mann." Thus spake Director Franco Zeffirelli last year when he began filming The Taming of the Shrew. The screen credits maintain the mock-the-bard tone: script billing goes to Zeffirelli, Paul Dehn and Suso Checchi D'Amico, with a coy acknowledgment "to William Shakespeare, without whom we would have been at a loss for words." The irreverence in this case is less a shame than a sham. Despite the disclaimer, Zeffirelli has succeeded in mounting the liveliest screen incarnation of Shakespeare since Olivier...
Under the new bill, which is certain to be enacted into law some time after Parliament convenes in the spring, non-Catholics will be allowed to hold public worship services for the first time since Franco took over in 1939. Still, many of the most liberal aspects of the earlier draft were cut out. Non-Catholic faiths will not be allowed to proselytize actively for new members, nor will they be permitted to run cultural, charitable or social associations. The part of the bill that would have guaranteed non-Catholics in the armed forces the right to refuse to participate...
Though Genovès lives and works in suburban Madrid, he does not consider his work a critique of the Franco regime. "I want to be a universal painter," he says. "What I am trying to show is that a multitude is not an anonymous mass, but a collection of individuals who would, in an ideal world, each be authentically free...