One server would stand on a little bench, looking out for approaching guests from the room's one, high window, and announcing when someone was approximately 15 feet away so that Zubair could sweep open the door, as if by magic, right as they reached the threshold.
A doorman in gold buttons swept open a gate, and we rolled into the courtyard of the Apthorp, a Renaissance-style building where a childhood friend lived.
Returning home late from her first tryst with Adam, Jewel sweeps open the door to the den and finds her father nuzzling a giggling platinum blonde -- she is his wife and Jewel's mother.
As a student his intellect was rigorous but his timing was also spot on:"glasnost", the political movement that swept open the Iron Curtain, enabled him to travel and study throughout Europe, finally settling at Manchester University.
AT THE press of a button, the double doors sweep open.
Will future cubicles for trousers inspection have curtains that sweep open at the pull of a lever, like a voting booth?
Occupying a grand Victorian building in what is still a grand boulevard despite the noisily bustling lunchtime crowds, its doors sweep open to usher customers into a large open carpeted room, dotted almost sparsely with stuff relating to your money.
But along with the global power and economic shocks of the past decade, two other crucial shifts have defined the early 21st century: the economic rise of China, in defiance of market orthodoxy, and the tide of progressive change that has swept Latin America, opening up alternatives to neoliberal capitalism.
A series that began with thoughts of a Lakers sweep instead opened with Iverson sweeping the 76ers to an overtime shocker.
