Despite the project's length — 15 hours over seven nights, spanning two weeks beginning next Sunday — PBS is expecting its largest audience yet, surpassing the 38.9 million viewers who watched any part of the first broadcast of "The Civil War".
Like the 1991 "Short Visit to the Planet Earth" by Jean Pigozzi (the son of a prominent Italian industrialist) and "The Way We Lived Then" by Dominick Dunne, Princess Sayn-Wittgenstein's book is a visual diary of her jet-set days and nights spanning half a century.
The other night, C-SPAN, the congressional cable channel, showed not "the Iowa caucuses" but an Iowa caucus--the 67th Precinct caucus in Des Moines.
"Viewers of 'Saturday Night Live' span several generations, from Baby Boomers to Generation X all the way to whatever you call the little dummies who are live-tweeting this right now instead of watching it," Fey said.
Giorgio Armani's shows have rarely ever been costume parades; they have, however, sometimes seemed endless, unfocused and no more engaging than late-night C-Span 2. Mr. Armani, who has drawn from military influences in the past, most notably in the late 70's, avoided the revivified trend this season.
The Midsummer Night Swing fiesta spans June 26-July 14 and welcomes dance instructors to demonstrate their skills alongside peppy bands like Johnny Colon & His Orchestra, Orquesta Broadway and Crytzer's Blue Rhythm Band.
ABC News, apparently with a stranglehold sponsorship of the Democratic Party, blocked voters from seeing the opening of primary season live that night on C-Span.
In a study conducted at the National Institute of Mental Health which re-created conditions of "prehistoric" sleep, Dr. Thomas Wehr deprived volunteers of artificial light for up to fourteen hours at night for a span of several weeks.
Merlis, whose previous novels are "American Studies and An Arrowow's Flight," provides an unflinching portrait of sexual obsession and the cold calculus of hooking up at gay bars, and he skewers the lawmakers Joel works for; Joel alternately lusts after them and mocks them as "white guys with bad comb-overs, voting silently in the middle of the night while C-Span played Vivaldi".
