Gobs of big wonderful rings.
There was a wonderful three-ring circus of track and field, concluding with Justin Gatlin of the United States taking the 100-meter dash and ending Maurice Greene's bid for consecutive gold medals.
A wonderful way to ring in the season, however weary of it you may already think you are.
The brass band plays in the stands (with a wonderful Stand By Me ringing out several times a day).
The main stock was in accessories - fantastic glam jewellery from FFr500-1,000, jewelled chokers and gaudy rings, wonderful scarves and mad hats.
That's the wonderful thing about ringing them up: it's like talking to a giant, multinational Sweden - an enormous, progressive democracy where, if you stay on the line long enough, it becomes hard to believe that somewhere in the world there are moustachioed tyrants with great bags of smallpox ready to do for us.
His particular brand of buoyancy found its public expression in more than thirty musicals, among them "On the Town," "Wonderful Town," "Bells Are Ringing," and "Singin' in the Rain," whose popularity helped give postwar America an exhilarating backbeat of promise.
Instead it was a matinee memorial for the lyricist Adolph Green, who died on Oct. 24 at age 87 and who, with his partner, Betty Comden, wrote the lyrics for some of Broadway's most revered musicals, including "On the Town," "Wonderful Town," "Bells Are Ringing" and "Peter Pan".
When the show was over, and the audience had heard many marvellous songs from such shows as "On the Town," "Wonderful Town," "Bells Are Ringing," "Two on the Aisle," and the film "Singin' in the Rain," I asked Comden which song meant the most to her. " 'Some Other Time,'" she said.
