Hints and tips:
...His friend, poet Paul Valéry, called Degas “a cruel connoisseur of all the shapes and attitudes of women” and “the most intelligent, the most demanding, the most merciless draughtsman in the world”....
...The following day, I decide to follow them, driving down to Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme, a pretty town 20 miles south, where the River Somme meets the Channel....
...Trouvé’s installations incorporate books that have influenced her and which Fonderia Nolana recreates in marble — Fernando Pessoa, Paul Valéry and others rendered shrine-like and eternal in stone....
...The Munich Philharmonic sacked Valery Gergiev, probably the best known Russian conductor, after he made statements supporting the war....
...“At the moment, there are no projects coming up as large as this one,” Valery Kazikayev, chair of Udokan Copper’s board, said on a recent visit to the mine....
...Braque is “light like a bird, and not like a feather”, his biographer Alex Danchev wrote, quoting Paul Valéry....
...Valery Gergiev, one of the most celebrated figures in the classical music world, was sacked this week from his position as chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic....
...I remember the television debate between the standard-bearer of the moderate right, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, and the Socialist party candidate, François Mitterrand; Giscard d’Estaing landed a decisive blow...
...Here are eight charts, including on public investment, green policies, immigration and digital....
...It’s worth remembering the words of Paul Valéry: “The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.”...
...The painter always “takes his body with him”, the poet Paul Valéry posited, while arguing that paintings lose by analysis of meaning: “we should apologise for talking about painting”....
...There would be another four “observers”, likely to include the EP’s Greens and Eurosceptics, and some civil society groups....
...It won’t be run by a figure as towering as former French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing....
...The French poet Paul Valéry wrote: “To plunge into water, to move one’s whole body, from head to toe, in its wild and graceful beauty; to twist about in its pure depths, this is for me a delight only comparable...
...Leaning green Austria’s election winner Sebastian Kurz wants to strike an alliance between his right-wing OVP party and the Greens, party sources tell the FT’s Sam Jones....
...But the political and journalistic bigwigs (often dropped off by chauffeurs) prefer the quieter black-lacquered tables indoors, with their green plush chairs....
...I collect stones wherever I go, but these are in shades of pink and white and subtle green....
...He will be replaced by two new co-heads — Valery Barrier and James Fleming, who joins Citi from Bank of America....
...According to Valery Vavilov, if blockchain were in use today, Donald Trump would never again be able to claim that a vote had been rigged....
...The cocktail list by wunderkind bartender Maxime Potfer features Old Cubans and aged Manhattans alongside creations such as the Larry Corkru (€16), based on Ardbeg scotch and green bean juice....
...As were the Rose revolution in Georgia (2003), the Orange revolution in Ukraine (2004), the green movement in Iran (2009) and most recently of all, the Syrian civil war....
...Mauny General Manager, Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre Serge Dorny Director, Opéra de Lyon Bernard Foccroulle Director, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence Peter Gelb General Manager, The Metropolitan Opera Valery...
...Down the line came the surprising but distinctive voice of Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, former president of more than three decades ago. “Vous parlez français, monsieur?” he inquired....
...“I’ve spent the morning defending my friend Valery before the Swedish media,” says Salonen....
...Road R337 is a red soil track through the green foliage of the dense equatorial forest....
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