Word: belgian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ROSETTA She is the teenager who will do anything to get any job, however menial. Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne's dour Belgian drama earned the top prize at Cannes this year by being both grinding in its bleakness and inspiring in its intensity. Emilie Dequenne plays Rosetta with a blank fury that suggests a medieval saint or a modern assassin...
...barely two years as CEO, Ivester appears to have done what no mere soft-drink rival could have hoped to accomplish--dimmed the luster of one of the world's brightest brands. It wasn't just Coca-Cola's seven-quarter-long profit slide. When dozens of Belgian schoolchildren fell sick after drinking Coke products last June, Ivester maintained what looked like an arrogant silence for more than a week before traveling to Belgium to apologize. (The incident resulted in a 65 million-can recall.) Nor did he burnish his company's image by failing to promote Carl Ware, senior...
...Walk over to counter left of vegetarian counter. Ask woman behind counter what is malted about the malted Belgian waffles. She looks confused, goes to the back, asks cook, returns: "Yeah, there's malt in it." We both smile...
...Vaux moves on to TinTin and the Real World. "Have you ever heard of TinTin? It's a Belgian cartoon from the '20s to the '70s. People used to tease him for his haircut -it was sort of smooth but stuck up in the front-but now everyone has that haircut. TinTin is marginal in the U.S., but for some reason he's been a popular subject for French intellectuals. They have many, many books on him--one says he's a drunk, one says he and Captain Haddock, his companion, are lovers, and several claim the author, Herge...
Overseas, they have been asking them for some time. In recent years Europeans have become increasingly jumpy about bad food--and with good reason. Since the outbreak of mad-cow disease in 1996, the appearance of dioxin-contaminated Belgian chickens last spring and the later recall of contaminated cans of Coca-Cola in France and the Benelux nations, health officials have grown fussier about what their citizens consume--raising the doubts about GM food even higher...