Word: half-hour
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There is no question why "The Simpsons" is the longest running half-hour comedy on television. It transcends differences of personality, age and geography. It even seems to have the ability to transcend time, presently starting off its twelfth full season. As a series, it has brought us together, as a room, a dorm, a college, a country and a world...
Barkley made his race official last night with a half-hour "campaign announcement" in the Eliot Junior Common Room...
...problems is I like to talk, and I'd spend a half-hour with every person," he says of a losing bid for student body president in high school. "My opponent cut classes to shake hands--I had issues and ideas...
...solemn tone pervaded the two and a half-hour hearing conducted by the seven justices--five men and two women...
...only. When you did get to him, he could be a conundrum. Once, as I interviewed him in a hotel about his eldest daughter Karenna, Gore started by offering me a soda. I'm glad I took it--it was the only refreshing thing in that dry, unrevealing, tense half-hour, which was odd since the questions were unbarbed and the subject well known to this doting father. But one learned over time that Gore was just moody. You could game him out--specific questions got good answers, general ones got you nowhere--but sometimes he didn't want...