Clarin had, quite literally, vanished into thin air.
Boom turned to bust, and inside a decade Pithole had quite literally vanished from the face of the Earth.
The prints literally vanished.
But standing on that dwindling beach with Mr. Segar and his wife, listening to stories of how their lives have shrunk, how their village is literally vanishing, it's hard not to wonder: What's a fair price to pay for all this progress?
Struggling factory workers aren't just being trivialized - they're literally vanishing from our public conscience.
Many of the best movies by black filmmakers have gone utterly unnoticed by the Academy whether films by Charles Burnett or Julie Dash and others have vanished literally unreleased (such as Kathleen Collins's great "Losing Ground," from 1982, for instance, which comes out on DVD in April).
Many of the best movies by black filmmakers have gone utterly unnoticed by the Academy — whether films by Charles Burnett or Julie Dash — and others have vanished literally unreleased (such as Kathleen Collins's great "Losing Ground," from 1982, for instance, which comes out on DVD in April).
With his power having vanished literally overnight, his ministers resigning one after another and the crowds of supporters he had counted on failing to materialize, Mr. Wahid, 61, made no public statement today.
