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...some foreign filmmakers, 1996 was a very good year. Hong Kong's John Woo teamed with John Travolta for Broken Arrow ($70 million at the domestic box office). Jan de Bont, who got his start shooting Dutch art films, helmed the whirlwind Twister ($242 million). Roland Emmerich, from Germany, had a little number called ID4 ($305 million). Foreign directors, America thanks...
...mother, Johanna. The composer drifted toward insanity, accusing Johanna of prostituting herself and convincing himself that Karl was in fact his own son. Johanna eventually hauled Beethoven into court, where witnesses testified about his incompetence as a guardian, and the court exposed his lack of nobility despite the Dutch predicate “van.” The composer was publicly humiliated...
...when astronomers started thinking about where comets actually came from, they realized that there was an enormous cloud of icy chunks, named the Oort Cloud (after the Dutch astronomer who proposed it), orbiting invisibly tens of trillions of miles from the sun. A second group of comets, according to Gerard Kuiper (a Dutch American), must come from closer in, falling sunward from the disk-shaped cloud of icy chunks just beyond Neptune that bears his name. Sure enough, when astronomers trained their telescopes on the Kuiper Belt 15 years ago, they started finding all sorts of objects. In the past...
Call it the Murakami effect: strollers, like Vuitton handbags, are being fashionably customized. Dutch design company Bugaboo is introducing a line of limited-edition strollers by Dutch fashion designers. The first edition, left, by Bas Kosters, comes in a series of 1,000. At $2,000 apiece, it's like buying art. See bugaboo-by.com...
...among the highly regarded new drinks in the pipeline. Tab Energy, expected to launch later this year, is aimed at women and the market for healthier sodas. Like the M5 Coke bottles, Tab Energy's containers will feature a novel design (slender and pink), as will the new Von Dutch energy drink (camouflage cans). "When thirsty people go into a store looking for something to drink, the package sells the product. It's a brand's last chance to sell itself," says Hemphill. It's an acknowledgement that in the vastly overcrowded beverage aisle, every advantage counts...