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...relay was eventually cut short, as the flame couldn't hold up against the determination of the demonstrators drawn to it. Hundreds of other activists gathered at the Trocadero esplanade across from the Eiffel Tower to show their support for the Tibetan people during a day of events that was to wrap up with concerts in the evening. Activists in Paris, like their peers in London the previous day, turned an event intended to highlight China's growing political and economic prowess into a police-harnessed reflection of how China treats dissent...
...judge from his journal and a reissue of his collected verse, Stephen Spender, 76, remains a minor poet and a major luncher: "I had lunch with Eliot a few days ago at the club ... On Thursday went to the luncheon given in honour of John Lehmann at the Trocadero ... Lunch in Paris with Denis de Rougemont ... We gave a luncheon for Auden and the Austrian Ambassador ... In Berlin, at luncheon, I met George Kennan again ... Went to lunch with Robert Oppenheimer ... [Guy Burgess] invited me to lunch at his apartment ... Lunched with Cyril (Connolly) at Whites ... Pauline de Rothschild rang...
...close and personal with starfish and octopi. At Scratch Patch across the road, they can wade through a treasure cave of semiprecious stones - and even collect a bagful. Information: Near the town center. Aquarium $3.50 for kids; Scratch Patch entrance free, gem bag from $10; www.aquarium.co.za London: Trocadero A kids' mall with shops, cafés, cinemas and two floors of Funland, with bowling, Sports Bar (TV screens and American pool), kiddie rides and seaside-style arcade attractions that combine old (wheel of fortune, pinball and dodgems) and new (video games, dancing stage, virtual-reality roller coasters and trips...
...LONDON: TROCADERO A kids' mall with shops, caf?s, cinemas and two floors of Funland, with bowling, Sports Bar (TV screens and American pool), kiddie rides and seaside-style arcade attractions that combine old (wheel of fortune, pinball and dodgems) and new (video games, dancing stage, virtual-reality roller coasters and trips to space). Or you can sit quietly and let a computer draw your portrait. information: Coventry Street, Piccadilly Circus (Piccadilly Underground station). Bowling $9 per person, pool $1.50, VR ride $3 for two people; www.londontrocadero.com
...radiant innocence winsomely, as well as her later, more subdued dignity as an abandoned wife. Real-life husband-wife team Kirby and Beverly Ward almost steal the show as the husband-wife comic team of Frank and Ellie who leave the show-boat for a gig in the Trocadero. And Elizabeth Mary O'Neill does steal the show, if only briefly, as Magnolia's daughter Kim: her Charleston, near the very end of the show, is a terrific eyeful with a lot of pizazz--the best-choreographed and quite possibly the best scene of the entire show...