If not for randomized trials, we would still be performing 5-cm-margin-wide local excisions, elective lymph node dissections, adjuvant hyperthermic limb perfusions, routine biochemotherapy for patients with stage IV disease, and we would still be conducting interminable phase II studies of a variety of melanoma vaccines that have since been shown to be ineffective, if not harmful.
On to the Olympics now, and the latest stage in the interminable countdown also marked the debut of one of the best pieces of London 2012-related design: the Olympic torch, which was lit in Greece.
Powered by the frenzied commitment of the four skilled actors who make up its cast, "Pig Farm" careers around the stage like an interminable improv session for a still-unformulated sketch on "Saturday Night Live".
Congratulate yourself, not just because you honoured your civic duty and displayed tangible appreciation for the privilege of living in a democratic society, but congratulate yourself for allowing your interminable optimism to take center stage.
We've all sat in interminable inset sessions where another key stage or subject is discussed at length and the irrelevance switches you off.
For the play's brief and interminable duration, these characters splatter the stage with Ms. Murray-Smith's attempts at funny commentary on the excesses of latter-day feminism, or the underappreciated mothers of today, or the impossibility of pleasing women.
The administration has set the stage for the third interminable military intervention in a Muslim land in a decade.
The saxophonist Dave Koz oozed onto the stage for a couple of interminable songs.
So, in the long, long meantime, if we do only have only the briefest cameo in a seemingly interminable epic, shouldn't we make the most of it while we are on stage?
It's an interminable race, although one that in recent times has felt like it's approaching its closing stages… Where does the genre go from here?
