During the 1970s, when the city was broke, Times Square's war-zone ambience kept tourists away and Abbie Hoffman's "Steal This Book" established the counterculture chord of the times, second-acting became standard practice for the bohemian urbanite.
But that may also be a problem; residents and businesses in the area have complained about the blockades and security details in front of the stock exchange giving the neighborhood a war-torn ambience.
Set in a prison castle after the victory of Franco in the civil war, with an ambience of lice, cold and summary executions, it features a novelist, imprisoned and denounced as "the worst writer in the world", who is blackmailed into polishing the prison governor's own execrable literary efforts.
Although the book bogs down in the middle, its opening chapters are gripping, as Mr. Waugh deftly conjures the ambience of pre-World War I Vienna and recounts the early tragedies that would forever scar the House of Wittgenstein.
Below deck, the 130-degree heathrownwn off by five 600-horsepower diesel engines, combined with bone-crushing noise, created the ambience of a Second World War submarine movie.
It had a palpable texture, this prosy ambience, a bit of World War I trench-warfare leftover aroma of dung, urine and damp carcass, but it was the '70s and not a time to be picky.
The rally had the ambience of a 1960s anti-war protest like Sanders would have attended in his youth.
"Wait for Me!" is decorously arranged by categories — parents, siblings, war, marriage, houses — and is rich in Old World ambience.
In 1966, they settled permanently at Stanford's Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, with its enormous holdings and scholarly ambience.
"I literally promised him that I would re-create his diet and the ambience of his New York town house in Moscow at the height of the Cold War.
