The three-hour presentation was watched by 13.1 million viewers, with a 3.8 rating/9 share in adults aged 18-49.

But after their three-hour presentation, Ranieri rose to deliver the closing address.

Last Monday, the five were invited back for a three-hour presentation, and the selection of FCB/ Leber Katz, Mr. Martin said, was fairly certain by Wednesday night.

Over the next few months, he made several three-hour presentations to Bowne's executive committee and talked at length with the prospective client.

Left unspoken during the three-hour presentation in the gleaming glass atrium of the Winter Garden at the World Financial Center was that none of these designs might ever appear on the skyline.

It was early 1991, and he had taken a business trip to Australia to make a three-hour presentation to a client.

It is the kind of carefully crafted moment that makes the three-hour presentation - scheduled for 8 to 11 this evening, unless postponed by a fifth World Series game - masterful television.

Yet by providing interludes between each dance and a 30-minute overture to the entire program, the musicians offered too much of a good thing and made the three-hour presentation seem unduly long.

"Morgan will show up with 20 people for a three-hour presentation to a client," said one former executive.

During the three-hour presentation, which several hundred lawyers attended, he offered such reassuring tidbits as "I counsel violence only when violence is an appropriate response."