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Loftus regarded so-called recovered memories as concoctions “spun not from solid facts but from the vaporous breezes of wishes, dreams, fears, desires.”

Hope needed a name and a shape, and what followed was anything but vaporous feelings.

"We let the biology do the harder job of converting information about vaporous chemicals into an electrical neural signal," Raman said.

But the heroine of “Coppelia” isn’t anything like the unattainable sylph of “La Sylphide” or the vaporous Wili of “Giselle.”

Both photographs reveal an almost football-shaped cloud of smooth, vaporous material wrapped in sharper, wispy multicolored tendrils.