Turning to the steel sector in this menagerie of commodity-related issues, I discovered one other simple beauty that bears watching: round-number support.
Last year, when the draft started at 4 p.m. Eastern on a Saturday, 5.5 million watched Round 1.
But recent events watched round the world made you think: thank goodness that James has retained his sense of youthful spontaneity that occasionally borders on silly.
It is impossible to watch round 13 without the hauntingly beautiful intermezzo from Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana providing subconscious backing music.
Suddenly I didn't feel hungry for my Frosties and I watched round the table, as, like a circle of skittles, everyone went down.
Ratings sometimes go up in the second and third rounds of the debate cycle, and given the kind of Frazier-Ali hype surrounding this matchup, there is no telling how many people will watch Round 2 at Hofstra University on Tuesday night.
Pip the red-tailed hawk has kept a relatively low profile since flying the nest last week — certainly when compared with being watched round the clock on the Hawk Cam.
He was taken to a secret detention center on the city's outskirts and spent the next 81 days watched round the clock by rotating pairs of young soldiers.
"And if they're not watched round-the-clock, there's always the potential that they'll call their associates and continue committing crimes".
Frank Batten Sr., the former chairman of a media conglomerate who in 1982 started the Weather Channel, facing down skepticism that many people would watch round-the-clock coverage of rain, wind and temperature, died Thursday in Norfolk, Va.
It felt a little like watching Poirot round up his suspects for the big reveal.
