The first "confidence man," we're told, appeared in 19th-century New York, a pleasant-looking fellow who engaged gullible strangers in amiable conversation, then asked, "Have you confidence in me to trust me with your watch until tomorrow?" Invariably they did -- whereupon he vanished, watch in hand, never to be seen again.
My stomach had done a flutter kick at the sight of someone dropping into such a wave at dusk, and as I bobbed over the swells gathering themselves for the assault on the inside bar I kept peering toward where he had vanished, watching for a riderless board washing in.
Every last bit of who I was vanished watching him suffer.
The day ended with Groh smiling and saying he was going "into the cave," where all coaches vanish to watch film rather than have a life.
After Horton vanished, MacDonald watched as potential evidence was ignored.
I'd had a seasonal-transition of a common cold festering for a week and it completely vanished while watching this show, so bring on the placebo TV.
I make the watch vanish and lookit's here!
To watch "Vanishing Point" now with Mr. Kaminski is like recalling two vanished worlds: that of Poland in the late 70's, caught in the ferment just before Solidarity was born, and that of the United States of nearly a decade earlier, the Vietnam War still raging, the 60's youth culture fraying at the edges.
Ones to watch: Vanishing Twin, Emily Wells, Ice Cream, Xenia Rubinos, Haley Bonar.
It seems longer, perhaps because so many geeky antiheroes have followed Napoleon onto our screens, or perhaps because the film's deadpan humor was so vaporous that it seemed to vanish as you watched.
For a television show with Mr. Blaine, Mr. Gaughan worked on an illusion in which a woman's watch vanishes and reappears down the street in the display window of a jewelry store.
