Many players, however, despised the place and its Teflon-coated roof, where fly balls went to vanish.
When other intelligent animals are presented with a deduction or "object permanence" problem — a ball vanishes into one of two boxes; which box did it go into?
Granderson made the play with an elbows-and-knees dive that may have also included his chin, as the entire stadium saw the white ball vanish into the glove.
When other intelligent animals are presented with a deduction or "object permanence" problem a ball vanishes into one of two boxes; which box did it go into?—most of them solve the problem by watching where the ball goes.
Page 24 RALPH J. LOMMA, 87 He helped set the static pastime of miniature golf in motion, letting players tilt at windmills, shoot across rising drawbridges and, at game's end, watch the ball vanish forever into the maw of a voracious clown.
Ralph J. Lomma, who at midcentury helped set the static pastime of miniature golf in motion, letting players tilt at windmills, shoot across rising drawbridges and, at game's end, watch the ball vanish forever into the maw of a voracious clown, died on Sept. 12 in Scranton, Pa.
A seamstress sews the incorporeal bodies of vanished women into ball gowns; a middle-aged mother, recovering from gastric-bypass surgery, is haunted by the featureless, fleshy mass of her former self; a husband tries to uncover the secret behind a green ribbon that his wife wears around her neck, despite her pleas for him to desist.
For them, slapstick and catastrophe are two faces of the same coin, as even that terrible accident makes plain: a yellow tennis ball vanishes in a smash, wedged into the racquet handle, delighting the players; later it rolls beneath a brake pedal, profoundly altering their lives.
Yet any optimism vanished within three balls of this contest when Bell and James Taylor were trapped lbw by Mitchell Starc.
One by one the balls vanish and, one by one, they reappear under the cups.
