Parties and party system
Both the Netherlands and Belgium have complex multi-party systems
Both use proportional representation that smaller parties can enter parliament
Cleavages in parties
Religion
significant but slowly diminishing
Class and ideology
separated liberals and social democrats
Emerging cleavages
anti-immigrants and anti-European sentiment
Cleavage! Theyre
perfect while youre still growing
cause they lift you right there.
- Mum! God, youre so embarrassing!
- They make more of what youve got.
All the girls have bought one for
their daughters. The Fleurs pretty,
and the gel bras a clever one -
no pumping, its already in there.
Not the sports bras! Theyre
so plain! They dont enhance.
- No ones going to see them.
- Its not how they loo
cleavage.
ANNIE
I make then feel confident. They
make me feel safe. And pretty.
ANNIE POSES IN FRONT OF THE MIRROR -- She smoothes her dress
along her hips. And puts on a flashy pair of sunglasses.
Stylish and slightly mad.
ANNIE
what I give them lasts a life-
time. What they give me lasts
142 games. Sometimes it seems
like a bad trade
(quickly rebounding)
but bad trades are part of baseball--
wh
CLASS.
A different teacher lectures a different class of students.
HEALTH TEACHER
... The chance of contracting HIV from a
promiscuous lifestyle will climb to one
in one hundred and fifty. The odds of
dying in an auto accident are only one
in twenty-five hundred.
(beat)
Now this marks a drastic increase ...
INT. HIGH SCHOOL. SCIENCE CLASS.
Same angle. Different teacher.
SCIENCE TEACHER
... From j
class suburban home.
We hear on the soundtrack the daily morning chatter
of a family rushing to get to work and school.
Subtitle appears: "2815 Calverton Court. The
Sutphin Family". Fade out.
Second subtitle fades in: "Friday, September 18th,
1992. 7:08am". Fade out.
3. Interior cheery, bright SUTPHIN kitchen. CREDITS
BEGIN.
MOM, BEVERLY, a trim, fortyish, pretty Betty Crocker
of the 90s, grabs t