61.   But then good parents, remembering the movies they sat through as kids, certainly know better than to look to Hollywood for guides to parenting.

62.   But there was so much ill will, and so many wisecracks, you almost dreaded the idea of having to sit through the game.

63.   But why would you want to sit through a bad movie?

64.   But these are little kids who have sat through a three-hour movie in which half the time people are running for their lives and dying.

65.   But they would have sat through a blizzard and cheered the snowmen.

66.   But will they sit through a coming attraction?

67.   But you have to sit through a lot of clunky stuff to hear it.

68.   By Saturday, I would have been willing to sit through an XFL game.

69.   Can any of you imagine what it might be like to actually sit through dinner without someone asking you if you wanted to change long distance services?

70.   Chilling because never before have I sat through a news conference built around television programming and felt such a sense of Armageddon.