Word: autumns
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...backwards calendar of TV, spring is the season of death, a time when fans launch drives to save endangered shows, a cause usually as futile as protesting the falling of autumn leaves. So it was unusual last month when fans of the animated sitcom Family Guy managed to bring it back, not by writing letters but by spending cash. When Family Guy--canceled not once but twice by Fox during its 1999-2002 run--was released on DVD, fans bought 2.2 million copies. That number helped persuade Cartoon Network (which reruns the show) to give Family Guy a third life...
Typically, most people try to assign such an inglorious distinction to autumn, a time which precedes the snowy festivities of winter and comes right after the good weather has just about run its course. And logic, at least on the surface, works...
Fresh on the heels of their excellent second album Bows and Arrows, New York’s The Walkmen are ready to wow the good folks of Cambridge with their hauntingly ethereal rock. Mellow rockers The National open. The Autumn Rhythm also perform. Tickets $14. 18+. 9 p.m. The Middle East Downstairs...
...thing such an effort must avoid at all costs is simply aping the movie - precisely the flaw of When Harry Met Sally. The film gave you fantasy visions of Manhattan: Central Park in the autumn, the famous Shakespeare & Co. bookstore and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This production is so cramped by the stage that you feel like you're in a Manhattan apartment; Central Park is strangely depicted by giant falling leaves projected onto the back wall. Loveday Ingram's production, with its single white-room set, tries to find a cinematic fluidity using sliding walls to cut between...
...gardens, a design approach that became basic to Japanese architecture. Gardens had always held an important place in the nation's soul, as we know from The Tale of Genji and other early court fiction of the Heian period. At that time, however, gardens were seasonal, emphasizing spring and autumn to illustrate the perishability of beauty, the concept of the "pity of things." In Yoshimasa's era, however, gardens moved toward a Zen aesthetic, becoming more serene places of contemplation that favored the use of symbols of eternity such as rocks and sand over the transient beauty of flowers...