Hints and tips:
...Bonus points for the perfect French omelette at its restaurant, Brasserie l’Émil. An 11/10 recommend....
...I looked behind us and saw a small speakeasy-like joint whose frontage read, in coy cursive letters, Chochotte....
...Ferragamo and Valeriano Antonioli, Lungarno Collection’s chief executive, are coy about their total spend (while Salvatore Ferragamo is listed on the Milan Stock Exchange, the Lungarno Collection is strictly...
...The Etro family, meanwhile, decided to sell a majority stake in their fashion house to LVMH-backed private equity firm L Catterton in a €500m deal....
...Plaster a snail with enough garlic butter and it goes from being le garden pest to l’escargot, the cornerstone of French culture....
...Take the city of L’Aquila, in Italy’s central Abruzzo region....
...The strident delivery, vocal vibrato and circus organ accompaniment of the French-language “J’ai L’Cafard” is an authentic evocation of chanson....
...She’s a figure straight out of Evelyn Waugh, partying on the Côte d’Azur at the racy Château de l’Horizon with Randolph Churchill and other socialites just before the war....
...Born in 1868 (in Paris or Germany, depending on the source) to a Jewish father (maybe) and Scottish mother, Meyer was coy about his lineage....
...Germany’s Jens Weidmann is rumoured to want the top job of ECB president, but he’s staying coy about his chances....
...He is more coy about the financial plunder in personal data. For all the people who use Facebook every day, it’s not as irreplaceable as Google or Amazon. Even Mr Zuckerberg seems to have moved on....
...L’etat c’est moi. To kratos eimai ego. Do you understand my position? With deafening éclat. robert.shrimsley@ft.com...
...This is a little problematic when the script is too coy to mention the L-word or even explicate Springfield’s affair with songwriter Norma Tanega (although they get a fine romantic duet on “I Close My Eyes...
...But he was coy about what he might do with the money....
...We know they did; we can see them, some coy, some gleeful, standing on trestle tables covered in cheap cloth....
...Miller’s sightscape, realised in tandem with Jeff L. Rosenheim, curator of photographs, begins with artfully scrambled visions of the American flag and proceeds to illuminate tragic scenes of battle....
...So acquisitions are on the agenda, and although Mr Agon is coy about targets, he says he wants to buy products that will create organic growth....
...The Swiss group is coy about its intentions, but it is regarded by most analysts as an ultimate seller of the company....
...At 18, having finished school, Kidston found the job through his cousin Geordie, who walked past the Coys showroom one day....
...While he is coy about the length of the lease, he says it “will see us well into retirement.”...
...The man himself is coy, insisting that he has no specific plans but still has enthusiasm for business challenges....
...The Swiss group is coy about its intentions in holding on to the stake but is regarded by most analysts as a seller given the lack of synergy between cosmetics and the food business....
...All this deviation from the norm seems coy compared with what Victoire de Castellane is up to at Dior....
...The consortium’s loans, and whatever else there may be, secure funding for the bank “into the third quarter of 2008″ – but A&L remain coy on whether that’s the start of the third quarter, the middle of it...
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