"Leigh has made a habit of burning bridges, vanishing overnight and of reinventing himself anew in a different milieu," the gallery says on its Web site, adding that Mr. Leigh's biographies include trails of "angry creditors, ripped-off artists, bamboozled collaborators".
Like one of these matches, Mr bin Laden caused a flash with the September 11th attacks on America in 2001, then vanished into smoke, leaving a burning trail of militancy stretching from Indonesia to Afghanistan, Iraq, north Africa and Europe.
Two thousand women and children vanish into the burning suburbs.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Taliban insurgents attacked a police checkpoint north of this city early Monday, killing 11 police officers and burning their vehicles before vanishing into the night.
His country may be burning, but all that unpleasantness vanishes at the doorstep of the president's Greek-revival villa, perched on a hill above town.
Noaa has said that about three-quarters of the 4.9 million barrels leaked into the Gulf waters has already vanished from the area - through evaporation, capture, burning, or dispersion.
Some need will have vanished, and I will walk back to the house — lights burning, smoke coming from the wood stove — as if something had been accomplished, some episode closed.
The centuries-old practice of suttee — a widow burning herself alive on her husband's funeral pyre — has all but vanished.
It's as if a spew of lava has buried the landscape – a molten river of anger, burning lakes of score-settling and an ash-cloud of bitterness under which everything else has vanished.
Dr. Christakis described watching the vanishing clusters as like lying on your back in a field, looking up at stars that were burning out.
