This has led the Washington Examiner's Byron York to wonder if Romney will keep participating in these debates, to spend four more evenings taking shots and attempting to "run out the clock".
They have planned what should be two more eloquent evenings, bringing together three or four choreographers around an open-ended premise: "A Foot Is to Kick With" (Ms. Szymaszek) and "Envisioning the Future Can Be Dangerous" (Ms. Hou).
Two or more evenings a week the cafe becomes the highly regarded High Tide (three-course dinner around £30), run by Kiwi chef Mark Eberlein.
And now, in England, the off-games squad are levelling the playing field through the growth of endurance culture and marathon art, led by the macho theatre-going offered to those who attempt in one go - when three or more evenings are staged on a single day - the current RSC productions of Tantalus and Shakespeare's history cycle.
Held at the new downtown Italian restaurant Bestia (2121 East 7th Place; 213-514-5724), the unique series brings diners the most innovative cuisine from across the country and supercharges the trendy pop-up restaurant concept, where a visiting chef takes over a restaurant for one or more evenings.
Keep the new revised shorter television diet a higher quality one - no more evenings with two good shows and an hour and a half of dumb things nobody likes in between.
There will be no more evenings out.
"There's appetite for more evenings, but we can't handle more," he adds.
"Now I spend more evenings helping Mama and sleeping with her.
So, though I feared yet one more humiliating moment, I decided to elbow my way through the early-evening crowd to the bar and declare for all to hear that I wanted something with no meat and no fish.
