New York is run on the kinds of understandings that kept the cousins in the lobby, with so many places formally open to anyone but protected in their exclusivity by invisible psychic gates.
The turns are tightest in slalom, wider in G.S. Each turn consists of a pair of poles, several yards apart, and you have to ski through the invisible plane between them — a "gate".
These sorts of puzzles include hidden warp gates, enigmatic obelisks, invisible platforms, sequences of tetriminos, a ciphered alphabet, and QR codes.
A pair of armored Strykers, resembling giant metal pods, sat silently in Mudhafer Square just outside Sadr City's main gate, its American crew invisible inside.
They think Frank Sinatra's version of "Fly Me to the Moon" is a recording of their grandfather sending out a message of paternal love and that ferocious cats who live beyond the gate have killed an invisible fourth sibling.
Last week's Brick-gate saga got the Invisible Woman thinking about her three different makeup faces.
As tiny rocks the color of butterscotch pudding crunched beneath her wheels, she turned into one of those long Hamptons driveways; the house invisible through the white-painted security gates.
Gate, bearded and thoughtful, speaks about an "invisible discrimination" that pervades even this most liberal of nations.
Even the Shiv Sena party, which is usually first out of the gate in going after all things Pakistan, chose to remain invisible.
All of this is pretty much invisible from the street, especially by the fuel oil depot whose gates are covered with warnings of "Keep Out" and "No Photography Allowed".
