The city itself, with its bone-white light and streets as straight and sharp as blades, is a precision-tooled machine, stripped of romantic atmosphere.
In the Gaza Strip the atmosphere of heightened tension led to an increase in rocket attacks on Israel by Palestinian militants.
Yet, with Israeli forces poised for a possible invasion of the Gaza Strip, the atmosphere felt charged in the way it did in late March of last year, when Israel began its first major offensive into the West Bank after a series of suicide bombings.
The director, Neil Pepe, who seems to love the strip-joint atmosphere of the comedy as much as we do, has done an exceptional job of matching performer to part.
They found that Earth-mass CO2-rich exoplanets that have no, or weak, magnetic moments may lose tens to hundreds of bars of atmospheric pressure, or even be stripped of their whole atmospheres due to CME-induced O+ ion pick up at orbital distances ~0.2 AU.
For example, one concern was that the torrents of charged particles from the star's flares could strip the atmosphere off any nearby planet.
Whether painting the White or Green mountains, the Catskills, or a lonely strip of Atlantic shoreline at Newport, Rhode Island, he conveyed a strong sense of locale through his careful observation of detail and his deep sensitivity to the nuances of atmosphere.
"It's a seamless kind of atmosphere".
Highly irradiated terrestrial planets can thus be even in danger of being stripped of their whole atmospheres (Lundin et al., 2007; Lammer et al., 2009; Lichtenegger et al., 2010).
But the party has aroused intense debate on the western end of the Rockaway Peninsula, a sandy strip of Queens dotted with deep-rooted communities that prize their small-town atmosphere.
