A 'Phantom' Has Not Vanished Entirely Suddenly, there it is. Everywhere. Almost overnight, it seems, 1 World Trade Center has inserted itself into the skyline, visible from places where the sky had seemed more empty than open since 2001. Its advent has inverted the "phantom limb" phenomenon; that period following 9/11 when the image of the twin towers persisted. "You feel it, but it's not there; you look to where you feel it should be," Ric Burns, a documentary filmmaker, said at the time. Movies like Ben Stiller's "Zoolander" were caught in the transition, with footage of the trade center already shot and a release date after the attack. Mr. Stiller was criticized for his decision to excise and obscure views of the twin towers. "I felt that people who chose to see the movie as escapist entertainment were not looking for another reminder of tragedy," he explained. Today, images persist of a downtown without a tower more than 100 stories high, even though one has actually taken form. And another movie is caught in the transition. In its advertising campaign for "The Dictator," laid out months ago, Paramount Pictures used a skyline photograph that showed no sign of 1 World Trade Center on the horizon. These small posters, known as one-sheets, have been installed on phone booths around the city. At about the same time last month, workers were installing the steel that made 1 World Trade Center the tallest building in New York City. The limb has regrown. The phantom, it seems, will last a little longer.