Word: dutchness
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...public that seems to favor women of the Laura Bush ilk (heck, even Hillary is showing cleavage on the presidential trail while also wearing an endless string of peach linen pants suits, the likes of which I have never seen in any store), Janet Reno, the daughter of humorless Dutch immigrants, stuck to her guns and kept on wearing really long jackets with no lapels. You’ve got to admire it. It’s a style that even lascivious old Bill couldn’t change (and I am sure he tried...
...area near the country's northeastern frontier. The experiment failed: the zone didn't attract much beyond a few hotels and a casino catering to Chinese tourists. Another special economic zone in Sinuiju, across the Yalu River from the Chinese city of Dandong, faltered in 2002 after the Chinese-Dutch orchid entrepreneur handpicked by Kim to run the place was arrested by China for fraud...
...October 1979, photographer Anton Corbijn, the son of a rural Dutch Protestant minister, set out for England in pursuit of Unknown Pleasures. That was the title of the dark, expansive debut album from the Manchester post-punk band Joy Division, and to Corbijn it was an artistic clarion call. "I thought, 'I want to be where that music comes from,' " says Corbijn, now 52. "It was my mission to photograph Joy Division." Within two weeks he took an iconic picture of the band that showed singer and lyricist Ian Curtis turning back toward the camera, with unwitting portent, while...
...unglamorous, but that's the point. "For all that kind of stylized decadence in some of his photography, his eye was always mocking it, mocking celebrity," says Bono of U2, whom Corbijn helped transform from a scruffy band of Irish rockers with mullets to global superstars. "It's a Dutch reformer's eye. I don't think he even knows how Protestant he is." Corbijn's relationship with U2 stretches back 25 years and has always gone beyond the role of photographer. For the cover of The Joshua Tree, he took the band to the Mojave Desert. The tree "fascinated...
...family's claim is the largest ever made to the Dutch government. After the war, it reclaimed many works of art stolen or bought by the Nazis during the occupation of the Netherlands. Destitute and trying to build up its coffers, the government discouraged claims, wanting returning Jewish families to buy back their art instead. It was an impossible feat for many. Claims were dismissed as thousands of works of art held by the state were loaned to Dutch institutions, many prominently on display for decades in national museums as their families tried to get them back...