Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They're baa-ack. After a vacation for NBC's Olympic fortnight, Jay Leno returns to The Tonight Show to find his competition with late-night rival Arsenio Hall fiercer than any jock grudge match. Consider the events. The javelin backstab. The 100-m bad-mouth. Synchronized sniping. Follyball. And -- given Leno's 33% ratings advantage over Hall -- the uneven parallel talk shows. Who needs Barcelona? These are the games of summer...
...coverage's quality. (The judging from here: a respectable bronze medal for Bob Costas' cool authority in the anchor booth and those welcome stretches of silence from the gymnastics commentators during crucial routines.) The issue is quantity. NBC scheduled a typically excessive 161 hours of coverage over the Olympics fortnight. In addition, the network put together an elaborate pay-per-view package: three additional channels of events, running 24 hours a day (12 of them live). Cost: a hefty $125 for the 15-day package...
...Angeles to film a hastily rewritten Reebok shoe ad. As they waited for the cameras to roll, their conversation remained on emotionally safe subjects like new golf clubs. There was no discussion of O'Brien's memorable miss in the pole vault at the U.S. Olympic trials a fortnight earlier, which had unexpectedly eliminated him from the Barcelona competition, or of Johnson's record-setting performance, which had dramatically turned him into the odds-on favorite for the gold...
...should be happy to give 10 years of my life," said Vincent van Gogh to a friend as they were gazing at Rembrandt's Jewish Bride in Amsterdam in 1885, "if I could go on sitting here in front of this painting for a fortnight, with only a crust of dry bread for food." This (more or less) describes the fate of Rembrandt's own apprentices. The Jewish Bride (circa 1665) is Rembrandt through and through; but many Rembrandts are not, for the simple reason that (contrary to romantic legends of his poverty and his rejection by the stuffy bourgeoisie...
Certainly a fortnight should have been ample time for the Crimson to fine tune its game, but Kleinfelder says Harvard has had other things on its mind lately...