"We've done the best we can do to mold it into a workable project that will fit into the ambience of the community.
"I love the idea of diving… not really into a character – I never lose myself – but diving into an ambience, an adventure," she says.
These strictures insinuate themselves into the ambience of everyday life and language, something that poets can observe with careful attention.
The hotel is furnished with beautiful antiques, inviting guests into an ambience that's part francophone Indochina and part funky Shanghai-chic, though the stuffed animals that grace the walls might not be to everyone's taste.
While most fast-food restaurants prefer to locate on highways and shopping centers to maintain their trademark images, McDonald's and some others are willing to alter their traditional look in order to fit into the ambience of certain communities.
Jeremie Frank's The Macrophone (1981), which forms a possible entry into Drawing Ambience, is one of the exhibition's more straight-faced commitments to fantasy: a large machine, like half an X-wedge engine, rendered in airbrush, collage, graphite and technical pen.
There's something humble and intimate in the moments when her mesmerizing voice seems to dissolve into the ambience around her. "If I should fall so deep / May it be with you," she sings on "With You," gently seesawing along with a twee acoustic guitar line and a modest string section.
Filming on location in places like Shanghai and Dubai, in the sterile fluorescence of ultramodern airports and hotels and in impoverished outlying regions, he delineates a time of global mobility, extreme inequality and radical loneliness, distilling the fugitive moods of contemporary life into an ambience of muted, abstracted longing.
Many of the guests got into the ambience of the evening by wearing garb from the 1920s.
The festival fit smoothly into the ambience of the reviving Grand Central, the nearly 100-year-old open passageway from Broadway to Hill near 4th Street, that for decades survived as a sleepy hideaway for low-end food and produce stalls.
