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Fortunately, Chase's show lasted all of six weeks, so it does not hold the record for short-livedness -- that belongs to the Wilton North Report, which was pulled from the air after only a month.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Russia, however, government has extended a powerful influence on literature, and the most marked effect of its influence is the short-livedness of most Russian authors.

From Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy by Panin, Ivan