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....
...“Joséphine is no longer just about the ring, the tiara on the finger,” says Chaumet CEO Jean-Marc Mansvelt....
...Cassandra burnt most of her large collection....
...When the former US president Donald Trump was found liable of the sexual abuse of journalist E Jean Carroll last month, some observers might have hoped this would make him less appealing to American voters...
...I very much like Suffolk-based Cassandra Cunningham’s eye (she trades as Almasy Antiques)....
...Jean-Luc Fafchamps’s music is eclectic, embracing orchestra, electric guitars and high coloratura soprano. This La Monnaie/De Munt commission is freely available on YouTube until November 3....
...There she was inspired by the ideas of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir and progressive film-makers such as Chris Marker....
...show (where, she notes, the “polite” applause perfectly matched the refined creations on the catwalk) to the selection of spiky-heeled and toed dominatrix-inspired designs by Givenchy, Castelbajac and Jean-Louis...
...“They can put themselves in the Cassandra role,” says Mr Kreko. “They can say, we told you there are problems, the EU didn’t respond, and therefore Great Britain left the European Union....
...One senior figure calls Mr Piquemal the “Cassandra of EDF”. “He is talking sense,” the senior figure says. “But he is not really being heard.” Additional reporting by Kiran Stacey...
...Twice in the formative years of the euro, Jean-Claude Trichet reacted to high inflation by raising rates, only to reverse course when Europe tipped into recession....
...Greece’s exit from the eurozone would be as dangerous for the currency bloc now as it would have been at the height of the debt crisis, Jean-Claude Trichet, the former European Central Bank president, has...
...Illustration by Luke Waller … Letter in response to this article: Grace Bumbry sang as Venus at Bayreuth in 1961 / From Jean-Bernard Wurm...
...Having correctly warned against the risks involved in the creation of a European single currency, the British are comfortable in playing the role of Cassandra....
...“This has been, as you remember, a difficult process,” said Jean-Claude Juncker, the Luxembourg prime minister and eurogroup president....
...Basquiat (less obvious names include Claire Morgan, Cassandra Laing and Jon Pylypchuk)....
...Dido and Jean Giraudeau’s lyrical Aeneas....
...There are excellent points about the Nazis’ failure to create a consumer society and about the modern paradox that standardisation (jeans, Coke) went alongside rampant individualism....
...I tell him I was grateful; vocal Cassandras were very thin on the ground back then. “I remember that,” Roubini laughs....
...This is a quotation from Jean-Claude Juncker, himself one of the last pro-European dinosaurs....
...Adds Rozen: “For Jackman’s wardrobe in Scoop, I am guessing Cary Grant in any Hitchcock film such as North by Northwest or Suspicion – but updated, hence the jeans.”...
...Prices for certain other sought-after wines – Guigal’s single-vineyard Côte-Rôties, Jean-Louis Chave’s fabled Hermitage – have also increased dramatically....
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