The doors on the left side are the only ones that ever open, meaning that the other half are completely redundant.
After having been closed out of a senior seminar that had "One Hundred Years of Solitude" on its reading list, I went out and read the novel anyway -- the one time in all my years of schooling that I ever opened a book for a course in which I wasn't enrolled.
"I've always said that if there's a G.M. position that should ever open, that I would be interested in going back to the N.B.A. as a G.M. for the right spot and the right opportunity," he said.
"I've always said that if there's a G.M. position that should ever open, that I would be interested in going back to the N.B.A. as a G.M. for the right spot and the right opportunity," Thomas told ESPN.com on Friday.
The biggest surprise for most Pakistanis is that the National Art Gallery ever opened at all.
(This reporter recalled the Time-Life books, and an enormous doorstop on Leonardo da Vinci that no one ever opened.
The envelope should now be sealed with no sign that it was ever opened.
The chimp was no doughboy, and one doubts very much that Norma ever opens a newspaper unless someone has told her she's mentioned in it.
There is no evidence that the post office ever opened; in 1842 the Postmaster General noted that the appointed postmaster had not completed any of the requirements for opening the post office.
But the small, practical lie that has always stuck in my mind is the fact that the handsome books in his library have uncut pages, proving that he hasn't ever opened them.
The box guards its secret as closely as the one that Catherine Deneuve's client displayed, with conspiratorial pride, in "Belle de Jour," and we are encouraged to reflect that something of consuming value to one man may be worthless to another, and that, had the boys ever opened the box, they might have tossed it overboard as trash.
