Word: dutchness
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...disregard--in some cases, her open contempt--for the dictates of fashion. Whereas fashion expects an image to be constantly updated, Prada reportedly sank upwards of $100 million into projects that are supposed to be permanent, if not immutable: her architecturally pioneering stores in New York City (by Dutch brainiac Rem Koolhaas) and Tokyo (by the precise Swiss duo Herzog & De Meuron). Whereas common sense says a designer should design what she likes, Prada will choose a color (such as turquoise) that she despises, because of the rush it gives her when she can make something beautiful with...
...INDICATORS Blue Sky for Jumbo Deal European and U.S. regulators green-lighted the merger of Air France and Dutch carrier KLM, creating the world's largest airline and encouraging further consolidation. Alitalia also wants to join forces with Air France...
...Slick Announcing a 19% slide in Royal Dutch/Shell's fourth-quarter profits, chairman Philip Watts told shareholders he would not step down from the Anglo-Dutch firm after it slashed its proven oil and gas reserves estimate...
DIED. FANNY BLANKERS-KOEN, 85, Dutch homemaker who won four gold medals in track and field at the 1948 Olympics, the most ever in one Olympics by a woman. For the London Games, she trained--in the less intense manner of amateur athletes of the era--two hours a day, twice a week, with her two young children in tow. At 30, she was the oldest woman on the track--and the fastest...
...medals in the 1948 London Olympics, the most track-and-field victories by a woman in a single Olympic Games; in Amsterdam. Blankers-Koen, a 30-year-old mother of two and the oldest woman on the track, was dismissed as past her prime before the Games. But the Dutch runner stunned critics by winning the 100-m and 200-m sprints, the 80-m hurdles and the 4 x 100-m relay...