Even during the full moon, the city's lights are brighter than the moonlight.
In the case of optically thick clouds, if we consider only the upward and downward propagation of light (as in the so-called two-stream approximation), then, to first order, the cloud bottom can be thought of as a two-sided, white (Lambertian) boundary, which diffusely reflects sun, moon, or city light back towards the hemisphere from which it came.
But peace is almost always, in one way or another, aspirational — premature — and that is better than the overgrown, overripeness of a quagmire, or a moon-cratered city that looks, thanks to all the ruins, quite old and done.
We want to be shown the possibilities and opportunities bold races to the moon, shining cities on a hill and bridges to the future.
To me, the shapes in the sculpture remind me of the moon over the city, and of the stars.
By Stephen Berg The New Yorker, August 4 , 1975P. 24 A full moon glazes the city, View Article By Rivka Galchen By Ceridwen Dovey By David Remnick By Larissa MacFarquhar.
Mr. Landrieu has considerable black support, some of it a residue of the approval granted in the 1970s to his father, Moon Landrieu, the city's last white mayor.
Five years after an insurgent bombing partly destroyed the shrine and spawned waves of sectarian killings, its rebuilt concrete dome again hangs like a low moon over the city.
His Bassoon Concerto appears on "Full Moon in the City," a new recording from the Oberlin Music label — one that also contains bassoon-and-ensemble works by Augusta Read Thomas, Libby Larsen, and Russell Platt, a colleague here at The New Yorker.
