If they come to Rio with empty hands, history will not forgive them.
The controlled manners of his superb quartet of actresses are now built on an expressly distant and prescriptive throwback to bygone Hollywood ways — emptied of history and of personality and infused with moralism.
The most obvious method is completely emptying the history.
"They never asked the women," said Margaret Marsh, the co-author of "The Empty Cradle," a history of infertility in America.
"The country has breathtaking empty beaches, riveting history and offers the chance to meet local people and get an insight into Africa".
They feed into the "great men" theory of history, empty of politics or analysis, and the arrival of new plot lines is weirdly comforting (Catherine of Aragon is dead? She's so history!).
From the 1930s through 1950s, according to "The Empty Cradle," a history of infertility, medical literature actually promoted adoption as a "cure," claiming it resulted in pregnancy "more often than not".
In the last few months, a local group, the Seward Park Area Redevelopment Coalition, has begun a campaign to get officials to support housing on the empty lots, though history and politics have not been on their side.
The movie's icons of nostalgia provide a grotesque carnival of the undead, a uniform spew of icons emptied of substance, history, connections.
But if your history is empty, the new tab page is empty, as well.
