But the trailing wisteria strung up on wire is made of plastic, and the October winds pull at sleeves and napkins, signals of Northeastern autumn.
They're capable of some pretty good rock songwriting, too, mixing up bits of Wire and the MC5 and Fugazi.
The four new songs on show, augmented by the Vulcan String Quartet, live up to Wire's promise of "heavy metal Tamla Motown".
Then, in the weeks before President Clinton's arrival in Vietnam on Thursday, the soft, acidic earth of Tien Chau began giving up bits of wiring, bolts and plastic, clearly from an aircraft, and finally what forensic experts believe are small amounts of human remains.
He replaced the worn hoses and taped up bundles of wires.
She has a human face and hands, a partly translucent body made up of wires instead of sinews, and wears sleek metallic body armour.
On the XIT ranch in Texas alone, in the 1890s, boundary and cross-fencing took up 1,500 miles of wire.
People caught in the waves became small ingredients in an enormous blender, bludgeoned by concrete slabs and felled trees, stabbed by jagged sheets of glass, tangled up in manacles of wire.
"I'm not sure the best way to build electrodes is by just coiling up a few inches of wire".
Then he dipped into the carton and came up with a roll of wire, and started lashing the wheels of the trunk to the props of our shack.
