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When I stood in that doorway, looking out at the rolling Atlantic, and realized that some despairing, shackled ancestor of mine might have passed that way...well, in the words of a great Negro spiritual, "my dungeon shook" and I was moved beyond my power to describe it. After Hillary and Chelsea Clinton visited Goree Island last year, the First Lady declared it "one of the most heartbreaking monuments anywhere in the world." The Door of No Return, she said, "represents nothing less than the depths of human depravity...
Likely story #1: Janet Reno, about to make her final decision on the appointment of an independent counsel suddenly embarks on a trip to Mexico. Then, practically in the doorway of a convention center full of fellow prosecutors, she faints dead away...
...blue fabric, making visible the torrent of water that infiltrates areas of the play as a symbol of fertility and female power. Inside Yerma's house, the furniture is sparse--a rocking chair, a table, jugs for water--and the dominating element is the starkest one of all: a doorway, erected against the air, marking the boundary between the house to which Yerma is expected to keep--in her unbearable loneliness--and the outside world, which calls her but offers still no solutions...
Cold viruses have had millions of years to evolve different ways of infecting the cells that line the nasal passages. (The "rhino" of rhinoviruses comes from the Greek word for nose.) But it turns out that almost all the rhinoviruses use the same molecular doorway on the surface of the cell, a protein called ICAM-1, to gain entry to the upper-respiratory tract. Doctors have suspected since the late 1980s that if they could somehow flood the nose with decoy ICAM-1 molecules, they might be able to keep the rhinoviruses from attaching to the real thing...
...came to us just as Diana Spencer. She did not tell me that she was seeing Charles. When she returned from vacation in September 1980, she talked with me one morning as I was getting dressed to go to work. We'd chat often; she'd stand in the doorway as I blow-dried my hair and put on makeup. That morning there were a lot of photographers and reporters outside our house. She stood in the doorway of the bedroom and asked for my full attention and said photographers were waiting for her--it was because she had been...