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A film on Elon Musk? Biopic based on Walter Isaacson is in the works

Pablo Picasso, then in his late 80s, had become intrigued by the musketeer as evocative of the old masters, especially Rembrandt, and returned to the theme again and again. “It was the idée fixe of his very late work,” said Pepe Karmel, a professor of art history at New York University. “I think he was asking himself: ‘Where does my art stand in relation to the old masters?’”

The cryptocurrency fiasco has exposed three deep and related problems: the extent of genuine activity is hugely exaggerated; the technology does not scale well; and fraud may be endemic

British Museum

Ancient Egyptian tomb paintings reveal that harps like this colourful example were often played at banquets, accompanied by singers and instruments that resemble lutes and oboes. Songs at banquets were usually dedicated to deities. This harp was made over 3,000 years ago, and was played by plucking two strings at a time.

Hear music from all around the world and make a soundscape from your visit in our free #SamsungCentre digital workshop on Sunday 6 May: http://ow.ly/ojdr30jcMI8

The Deripaska affair leaves the UK’s financial capital looking neither powerful nor principled.

The City’s approach to oligarchs is craven

The US has had the last word on London’s endorsement of Oleg Deripaska

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Le Dictionnaire des idées reçues (The Dictionary of Received/Accepted Ideas) is a short satirical work collected and published in 1911-13 from notes compiled by Flaubert during the 1870s, lampooning the clichés endemic to French society.

 

EN+ receives approaches for Oleg Deripaska’s stake

Financial Times

U.S. Gives Investors More Time to Divest From Rusal, En+

in the works

phrase of work

1. being planned, worked on, or produced.

   "a major consolidation of companies was in the works"

idée fixe

noun

1. an idea or desire that dominates the mind; an obsession.

   "I believe we need to challenge the idée fixe that only the appearance of youth is valuable"

endemic

ɛnˈdɛmɪk/

adjective

1. 1.

   (of a disease or condition) regularly found among particular people or in a certain area.

   
   

   "complacency is endemic in industry today"

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2. 2.

   (of a plant or animal) native or restricted to a certain place.

   
   

   "a marsupial endemic to north-eastern Australia"

craven

ADJECTIVE

• Contemptibly lacking in courage; cowardly.

  ‘a craven abdication of his moral duty’

NOUN

archaic 

• A cowardly person.

Origin

Middle English cravant ‘defeated’, perhaps via Anglo-Norman French from Old French cravante, past participle of cravanter ‘crush, overwhelm’, based on Latin crepare ‘burst’. The change in the ending in the 17th century was due to association with past participles ending in -en (see -en).