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...already sold two of his Indonesian players, to teams in Holland and Britain, and he believes a young Singaporean striker will net him an additional $250,000. To make his plan work, however, he needs to secure the kind of corporate sponsorship one sees around the pitches of the Serie A or Premiership. In Suwarso's dreams, of course, every player has his chest festooned with logos. So far coffeemaker Torabika and cement manufacturer Indocement have signed on. "We're changing more than the game," says Suwarso's brother and assistant coach Marvin. "We're hoping to change the culture...
...worthy tales need a bad guy, and it is the Dutch who are used to symbolize 21st century Washington. In the coming mainland film Hero Zheng Chenggong, the naval leader overwhelms the colonialists from Holland because, says director Wu Ziniu, "he is like Mel Gibson in Braveheart, fighting for his love of freedom." A state-produced TV mini-series premiering in October will present the Dutch as scheming to divide China. In fact, they were ensconced in Indonesia, "with no plans for a big presence in Taiwan," says Philip Kuhn, a Harvard historian. "They held out for a while...
...though this, mercifully in some cases, does not always succeed. Vermeer painted very little--or at least very few of his paintings have survived. The present count is about 34. And because his work had little influence on younger artists, and wasn't much written about even in Holland until the early 19th century, and was seen by so few people, it languished. His reputation didn't really revive until the late 19th century, helped (as old painting so often is) by enthusiasms for new art--for Realism and especially Impressionism. Still, the idea that on the far side...
Because art follows patronage, artists who worked in Delft tended to pass through and move on. Towns in Holland were a lot closer together and rather more connected than in Italy or France. Artists circulated with more ease among them, so firmly shaped local "schools" are not so easy to find. But if there was one artist totally identified with Delft in the 17th century, it was Vermeer--the only great painter to be born there, live there and (in 1675, at the early age of 43) be buried there...
...plastic, and their messages lost out to corporate hype and photo badges of 8-year-old softball players. Until now. Yes, the classic aluminum beauties are back. Kitschy slogans and retro cartoons decorate the small, round pins that reign again on the streets of fashion-conscious England and Holland. But no country has embraced the retro buttons?and their message of '80s-style youthful exuberance?as completely as Japan. Tokyoites have flocked to purchase kanbacchi, sporting their own distinctive anthems on their identical denim jacket lapels. Wait till they rediscover thin, leather neck ties...