After Megawati Sukarnoputri's supportive visit to Washington this week, America looks set to offer Indonesia, the world's biggest Muslim country, new trade concessions.The atmosphere on Capitol Hill is improving too.
"If you'd have asked me two weeks ago how I'd view the Olympics, I would've been quite begrudging but it turned out to be very positive," she said of both trade and atmosphere.
More then 170 major corporations — including Google, Best Buy, Pfizer, FedEx, Allstate, AT&T and Hewlett-Packard — are spending millions of dollars at the two conventions to promote their brands and their political agendas, creating a trade-show atmosphere away from the podium.
"Spring Awakening" trades in atmospheres, not explanations.
In the weeks before the anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center, the atmosphere has been complicated by statements and actions that many Muslims find offensive.
And some even trade the rarefied atmosphere of federal office for the more prosaic duties of state office, as Jon S. Corzine is trying to do.
If it's close to anything it's to Portishead and the other gauzy British trip-hop of the early- to mid-1990s, which traded aggression for atmosphere, and leaned heavily on drama.
Somewhere along the line The Fall traded intrigue for atmosphere, hoping that a string of genuinely tedious scenes where Jamie Dornan purrs at nurses would make up for a total absence of plot.
"I Love Ferguson" is running a fundraising campaign on behalf of businesses hit by looting in the initial rioting or because of a collapse in trade after the heated atmosphere discouraged shoppers from neighbouring suburbs.
It's your readiness to trade certain niceties of atmosphere and etiquette for the festive distraction of the fatty dog, a pork shoulder sausage that's seasoned with XO sauce and tucked into not just a bun but a party: pickled chili, pickled radish, pickled garlic and mayonnaise, all threatening to tumble or ooze onto your shirt.
