In "The Angels Show How to Make a City Vanish" (April 13), Murray Chass makes a passionate argument against the recent name change of the Angels' franchise.
In 1944 film-maker Severin Unck travelled to Venus to make a film about a vanished colony.
David Copperfield, a god in this city, is booked soon for the MGM and the master magician would surely like some of the magic from this fight on the end of his wand for his opening night; it is all very well being able to make a London bus vanish under a cloak, but can you generate the $180,000 that Mayweather will make per second in the fight?
Perhaps he thought that enough calls would simply make it vanish the way special effects make a twister disappear in a movie.
This is the sound of the audience realising that Martinez, after gradually discarding all her clothes, is about to make a red hankie vanish and reappear even though she is not wearing a stitch.
Software wizards have conjured up a set of new protocols, each designed to make a particular Internet problem vanish in a puff of acronyms.
Fortunately the performances were strong, and in the case of Roderick Williams, who plays Toby Kramer, "a wannabe video artist" who is making a film about a vanished IT contractor, excellent.
In the public discourse produced by the upper and middle classes in India – in newspapers and talk shows, in tweets and television soaps, in the comments that flood websites should anyone dare make a dissenting note – such contradictions vanish, replaced by an uncomplicated, almost cultish faith in India as a success story.
Until you start searching the records and find that dogs seem to make a habit of such vanishing acts.
It was on a History Channel show about Jasper Maskelyne, a magician who helped Britain during World War II by rendering tanks invisible and making a city vanish and reappear miles away.
