They're previewing the new season again—just as if, in the world of global warming and the 24/7 media barrage of the Internet, such things as seasons still mattered. How long has it been since you could demarcate your year by the weather? "Autumn in New York," Vernon Duke's once-famous song queries rhetorically, "Why does it seem so exciting?" And the first answer the lyric supplies is an experience now so remote from us as to seem antediluvian: "Autumn in New York/It means the thrill... More >>>