That's because it took a break from its usual fight-to-the-last shot war-of-attrition style and had its two best teams steamroll their way through the conference finals, the Boston Bruins having polished off a nifty sweep of the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Chicago Blackhawks having only a little more trouble with the defending champion Los Angeles Kings.
Through the first two legs of the Triple Crown, 26 different horses have taken their best shot at War Emblem and none were good enough.
In "Over There," the pilot alone offers a couple of shots of war's horrors that viewers are unlikely to forget, and they do remind us of the endless ways in which bodies and souls can be broken.
It is the first shot in a war against wildlife, a war that is coming to this country and that anyone who loves anything alive beyond themselves will have to fight.
The show pulls from Hine's entire career, major arcs of which include portraits of immigrants at Ellis Island, visual scrutiny of labor conditions during the Industrial Revolution and searing shots of war-torn Europe.
The actress Susan Sarandon, who went so far as to endorse Mrs. Clinton's long-shot anti-war Democratic opponent for her Senate re-election in November, Jonathan Tasini, accused the senator of lacking principles.
"And now the view from Denmark," Walter Cronkite would say, at around three in the morning back in the day when moon shots and wars (and assassinations, too) would entangle the planet, and the networks were still proud to have correspondents all over it.
As the Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen pointed out in January, it was a small group of rich liberal donors (including a mutual-fund tycoon, a GM heir and the president of Stride Rite shoes) who backed Eugene McCarthy's longer-than-long-shot anti-war run against Lyndon Johnson in 1968, setting in motion Johnson's near-defeat in New Hampshire and his withdrawal from the race.
This Drone-Shot 'Star Wars' Dogfight Wins.
