Hints and tips:
...Last week an émigré Russian emailed me from Cyprus to ask a question about Cassandra in Greek mythology and where to find seeds of tomatoes with a flavour worth sowing and growing....
...While Loewe, Jacquemus and Schiaparelli lean into surrealist references, retailers such as Browns are using culinary art in their campaigns....
...Then there was a long discussion with Cassandra over buying “two new coloured gowns for the summer”, one in “plain brown cambric muslin” and the other “a very pretty yellow and white cloud” (a fabric with...
...Chailley often wore spectacles under his thick mop of brown hair and had a fondness for expensive suits and Berluti lace-ups....
...Roubini certainly has form in predicting calamity and investors have learnt to ignore him at their cost (as he quips, he’s graduated from “being a Cassandra to a sage”)....
...Cassandra, Priam’s daughter, whose prophecies were ignored, is twitchy, unreliable and vengeful — and married off to a gloomy Agamemnon....
...Grant, SydneyWith salons in Los Angeles, Sydney, Melbourne and – occasionally – Paris, the facialist Melanie Grant is almost as jet-set as her clients (Victoria Beckham, Jennifer Aniston, Joan Smalls and Cassandra...
...Cassandra Crowe has moved to T Rowe Price, the $1.1tn US asset manager, as head of consultants for Australia and New Zealand....
...Biography/Memoir Dear Life by Rachel Clarke (Little, Brown RRP£16.99, January) joins a distinguished list of memoirs by healthcare professionals....
...And at the risk of being a Cassandra, I wonder if they aren’t just as oblivious to what is happening today with the US and China....
...“This is a referendum on the president,” says Pastor Cassandra Gould, who uses her Sunday sermon at Quinn Chapel AME Church in Jefferson City, Missouri to exhort parishioners to vote....
...Pastor Cassandra Gould is a child of the American civil rights movement....
...Meanwhile albums have swollen to unimaginable sizes, like the 45-track behemoth released by Chris Brown last year, so as to game streaming figures....
...These are exactly the arguments made by today’s Cassandras of currency wars....
...Cassandras are rarely popular. Mr Brown notes: “When independents assert their independence, there is a danger that an ‘us and them’ atmosphere can develop.” Mr Brown’s view is sensible....
...She discovered Nat King Cole and James Brown around the same time but the Met broadcasts became her Saturday ritual, and she would regale her classmates with detailed accounts on Monday mornings....
...For the first time, John Jones has employed a curator, Cassandra Needham, formerly of Nottingham Contemporary and the Whitechapel Gallery, to programme free exhibitions, talks and film screenings....
...All the men are dead and the former Queen Hecuba of Troy, her daughter Cassandra and the rest of the women are waiting in a refugee camp to hear their fate....
...If my Cassandra forecast turns out to be wrong, stimulus can be cut. But if it turns out to be right, and we do too little, we will live to regret it....
...Tim Harford’s latest book is ‘Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure’ (Little, Brown). To comment, please email magazineletters@ft.com...
...Malloch Brown has also worked as a journalist at The Economist, and it shows....
...I tell him I was grateful; vocal Cassandras were very thin on the ground back then. “I remember that,” Roubini laughs....
...None of this may be reason to break out the Bollinger yet, but it has belied the Cassandra prophesy that 2010 would see the economy mired in ever-deeper recession....
...Habermas always finds reasons to be positive, to mutate from Cassandra into Pollyanna. And not just a European Pollyanna, but a global one....
...Yet we feel strangely comfortable with the Cassandras. We have enjoyed being told that the light at the end of the tunnel signals an approaching train....
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