Word: hollander
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...tapestries from Poland, motorized mechanical sculptures made out of scrap iron and continuously-tuning radios by Switzerland's Jean Tinguely, and batches of Latin American assemblages glued together out of such rummage-sale remnants as sequined bras, false teeth, rubber gloves and old shoes. There was pornography from Holland by Johannes Oldeboerrigter (painted genitalia piled on platters) and pornography from Sweden by Ulf Rahmberg (comic-booklike engravings of copulation). There was a Uruguayan artist named Carlos Paez who offered a circus happening in a black tent with motorized cutout forms, flashing lights and noises of factory din, screams, sighs...
...Sunday. Advertising on TV has achieved this growth despite the opposition of people who feel that it gives too much direct influence to the advertiser and of those who, like many of the British, consider it an esthetic affront. It has also been harnessed by numerous restrictions. Belgium, Holland and the three Scandinavian countries still ban all TV commercials. Even in those countries that allow it, the typical TV ad is decidedly soft-sell, is aired only at certain times at night; in Switzerland, TV ads are never shown on Sunday...
Even countries that resisted TV ad vertising-notably Holland, Denmark and Norway-now find themselves debating whether to relax their bans against it. And Britain's venerable government-operated British Broadcasting Corp., where a few years back the very mention of advertising was enough to evoke "cries of horror and alarm," as the Economist once put it, has now begun to reconsider its stand against commercials...
...well as the U.S.'s Pan American) will propose at the International Air Transport Association meeting in Bermuda this month. Under KLM's plan, a passenger will be able to fly from Amsterdam to New York, stay two weeks in a hotel (without meals), and return to Holland-all for $360. Reason for the bargain: so many transatlantic planes fly full one way, half empty the other, that the lines would rather have low-fare passengers than no one in the seats...
...root of the crisis goes all the way back to 1830, when the Catholic Flemings and Walloons broke away from Protestant Holland to form a new country. For more than a century, the prosperous Walloons dominated things from their industrial southern strongholds; the northern Flemings were the poor relations. After World War II the balance shifted. The population advantage moved to the Flemings-5,250,000 to 4,000,000-and industry flocked to the cheap labor supply of Flanders. Flemish nationalism flourished, and Flemings bitterly protested that, although Dutch and French had official parity, French was still the language...