Word: autumns
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Titanic has much the same structure. Evoking the incredible fortitude of the musicians who kept playing until the ship sank, the hymn Autumn (which bears a striking resemblance to Amazing Grace) is repeated over and over while its aural environment gradually changes. Modular in construction, the work can be performed at varying lengths. "As you know, water is a highly efficient conductor of sound," explains Bryars. "Obviously, it was impossible for the band to keep playing under water, but theoretically the music has just kept on going, forever. That's the feeling I was after...
...American artist ever had a more extreme case of Casablancitis than Kitaj. His work harps on the theme of displacement, loss, nostalgia. You get it at full strength in The Autumn of Central Paris (After Walter Benjamin), 1972-73, with its diagonal mass of cafa habituas like creatures clinging insecurely to a reef-the whole structure, it seems, being undermined by a weird red figure among the red chairs in the foreground, indifferently wielding a pick...
...leaves in quick succession sail down in autumn...
...first time I really saw Harvard was in September, 1960," wrote Rudenstine, who received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1964. "I arrived...on a brilliant autumn day. I sat more or less motionless for two or three hours...I realized that if I failed to keep a rendezvous with this University, I would always feel as if I had been unwilling to test myself against the very best...
...autumn unfolded, the pressures grew; she began a romance with Tom Findlay, the handsome, personable son of the owner of Conso Products, the textile plant where Smith worked as a secretary. But a week before the boys disappeared, he wrote her a letter on his computer. He wanted to be with her, he said, but he was not ready for the responsibilities of a ready-made family. After news spread of the crime, Findlay printed out a copy of the letter and gave it to police. "At no time," he said in a statement last week, "did I suggest...