Word: trafalgar
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...controversy, but no more or less than other years. I've had ups, downs, good years, bad ones. I've been constantly challenged, praised, abused, damned. Running the National Theater is a bit like being Nelson's Column out there with all those pigeons in Trafalgar Square. Personally, I can't tell you where I am. But I can tell you where the National is. It is extremely successful. Until I read John Goodwin's editing of Diaries I had forgotten-because one's memory of pain is short-what complete bloody hell...
...Francisco by jet and checked into the Westin St. Francis Hotel's $1,200-a-night Presidential Suite. (The U.S. Government picked up the tab.) Nancy Reagan, in turn, got the London Suite (the irony was accidental). The trio and their courtiers later hooked up at the Trafalgar Room (also happenstance) in Trader Vic's restaurant...
...Trafalgar the biggest battleship was the Spanish Santissima Trinidad. It was destroyed by Nelson's fleet in spite of its name and 30 guns. The crew of the Corpus Christi should not expect any special protection, at least in this world...
...their shops and waited on the London pavements for his cortege to pass by. Flags went to half-staff, and mourning wreaths were placed in the mouths of the four bronze lions which, a few years before, he had sculpted for the base of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square. He was buried in St. Paul's, and his monument bears a stone copy of one of his best-known paintings, an image recognizable to thousands of people who probably could not have identified a Turner, a Blake or even a Constable: The Old Shepherd's Chief...
...confused with the American term lifeguards." This mindless small talk was enlightening compared with the shenanigans of the story-starved stars of the morning shows. At various times during the week, David Hartman of ABC played cricket, Willard Scott of NBC frolicked in the fountain at Trafalgar Square, and Joan Lunden of ABC toured London with a magician...