If the musical is a hit, of course, the run could become open-ended.
But shorn of buffed, blow-dried actors, they lose their practical function and become open-ended.
It was initially called an operation of hot pursuit; that became a mission to weaken al-Shabaab militants; and finally the deployment became open-ended.
Then he shifted into one of his new pieces, "Trillium," which shed structure and became open-ended, riding at length on two-chord vamps.
"It's a particular problem with cyberinvestigations — they rapidly become open-ended because there's such a huge quantity of information available and it's so easily searchable," he said, adding, "If the C.I.A. director can get caught, it's pretty much open season on everyone else".
Now that the blog has become open-ended, I pay far less attention.
By 2012, hundreds of thousands of young Eritreans had fled the country to escape the deepening political repression and to avoid what had become open-ended national service in both the armed forces and state and party-controlled businesses.
"I want to believe, and I think I have reasons to believe, that both Russia and the US – who are crucial because they are the co-chairs – have both an urgent vested interest in avoiding that this conflict starts again and becomes open ended," he said.
To that end, the vision for Copernicus is that becomes an open-ended mission of overlapping satellites.
"The discussions center on cost, and the concern about whether this becomes an open-ended mission for the French in Mali," one Defense Department official said.
