As well as sharing expertise, our financial support helps to stage London 2012, and without the support of the presenting partners the Olympic torch relay would not be able to take the magic of the Games to people in their own communities.
In the early hours of 4 April 2014, Smith called 999 after a heated row between the couple, claiming her partner had threatened to torch the flat.
Finally, there is Meryl Streep as Clarissa, neglecting her partner Sally Allison Janneyy) for the torch she still holds for prizewinning literary star Richard Brown Ed Harriss), organising a celebratory dinner for him - the fate of which is to echo the denouement of Woolf's novel.
This spring, when he was touring New York with Mr. Leadon, The Times noted, "Mr. White acknowledges that this will almost certainly be his last edition of the guide, but he hopes that his new partner will carry on the torch".
For now, let's send the warmest of greetings to torch relay "presenting partner" Coca-Cola, who this week staked an early claim for the title of Most Self-Parodic Olympic Sponsor when they indicated dismay that torchbearers selling their "memento" on eBay should have introduced the taint of commerce to the event.
The role of music, so central to Clara and the memoirs, returns in "opera" and "fine day", and in a more dyspeptic form in the deliciously sour story "burning love" in which a spurned lover torches his partner's belongings to the strains of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.
The payoff comes in an unusually comic wedding-masque, when Prospero silently mouths Iris's injunction that "no bed-right shall be paid till Hymen's torch be lighted" and ends each round-dance by partnering his daughter.
Britain's Jamie Murray kept the torch burning at Flushing Meadows after cruising into the last four of the US Open mixed doubles with American partner Liezel Huber.
A Van Nuys man was sent to prison Thursday for fatally stabbing his live-in partner, a transgender woman, and torching their apartment.
