But after a decade of summer movie seasons featuring a steadily increasing number of sequels, prequels, remakes, special-effects extravaganzas and other manifestations of lowest-common-denominator filmmaking, some signs are appearing that the long tyranny of the summer franchise flick may at last be waning.
Through more than two and a half decades of summers past, I also mastered the art of being an entertaining house guest.
We enjoyed endless bridge games, Thanksgiving dinners, and decades of summers at the beach together (especially the one of Camp "Jac-off").
After decades of summer sunsets and legal battles, the 93 weather-beaten cottages sitting on government-owned land are scheduled to be destroyed.
Through the past few decades of summer blockbuster movies and Silicon Valley products, artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly familiar and sexy, and imbued with a perversely dystopian allure.
Most of the cast had spent a decade of childhood summers under Deborah Mayo's tutelage in the Pumpkin Patch Players, her neighborhood theater troupe, performing classics like "Antigone," and "Oedipus Rex".
The Met Office warned early in the summer that the UK could be in for a decade of "washout" summers, like those of the past six years, because of the effect of climate change on global weather systems, partly as a result of changes in wind patterns caused by the melting Arctic.
Susa spent more than a decade's worth of summers at the Old Globe before "Transformations" launched his new career composing operas.
Portuguese, Spanish, French, and English explorers did probe the islands and the bays and rivers of the "maine" (mainland) throughout the 16th century; by the first decade of the 17th century, summer fisheries had been established on some of the coastal islands, and fur trade had begun with Native American groups.
