A deranged, homeless soothsayer (played by the director himself) jokes and japes at history.
Julius Caesar should have ignored the cheers of the Roman crowd and paid heed to the soothsayer.
It is less known perhaps that a favourite soothsayer is "a tiny, hunched deaf-mute in her mid-forties", widely known as "ET".
Cassandra is obviously not the only forecaster, and sadly on occasion this particular modern-day soothsayer fails to match the infallibility of his classical forebear.
CASSANDRA is clearly (not necessarily the best word when it comes to his predictions…) not the only soothsayer in town witness the latest from Trendwatching.com, a company whose purpose is in its name.
Income per person is up; rural poverty down; polio has just been eradicated; paved roads are becoming more widespread; and so on.The soothsayer is surely right, too, about the impending political drama.
"Rediscovering what's happening in Russia has come as a shock to many capitals," he says.The soothsayer of subsidiarityFor years the EU has been in firefighting mode, battling to hold the euro together or reacting to unrest in its neighbourhood.
For example, the computer has been renamed "tolva", from two words meaning number (tol) and female soothsayer (volva).
Professional fortune-tellers politicians, bureaucrats, industrialists, economists and analysts—generally come up with a dimmer prognosis than the Delhi soothsayer.
FIFTEEN years ago, if a soothsayer had said that the United States would find itself in a minority of three (with Canada and Panama) in an important vote at the 34-member Organisation of American States (OAS), he would have been accused of magical realism.
