Although it is entirely unprepossessing in most other ways – rickety chairs, randomly placed posters, empty shelves – the interview room on the fifth floor of the National Theatre is a curiously appropriate place to meet Simon Russell Beale.
Helen gave me a typing test — on a manual typewriter, cramming words onto an index card (I aced it) — and borrowed an empty office for the interview.
I don't think John McCain would actually endorse Hillary Clinton in 2016 because I don't think Rand Paul will actually be the G.O.P. nominee, but neither do I think McCain is just making an empty threat in this interview: A G.O.P. primary campaign carried out along the lines of his Senate feud with Paul really would have the potential to fracture the party's general-election unity.
Earlier this year, the group's communications director, Brad Dayspring, called her an "empty dress" in an interview with The Hill.
Marian Sutro, a clever, cool-headed and bilingual young woman (her mother is French), has attracted the attention of the Special Operations Executive, and, following a series of oblique interviews in empty hotel rooms, volunteers for training.
He is the author of three books, all on the theme of the social and economic tensions arising from automation within capitalism, including Empty Labor where he interviews employees who devote most of their working hours to "loafing".
As if that alone was not enough to turn heads, Baron Cohen surprised Ryan Seacrest during his red carpet interview by emptying the urn all over him, taking this publicity stunt to a new level.
The intent of the convention is to name the presidential candidate for the upcoming election and devise a platform for the party as well as providing a platform for weird Republican events like celebrity interviews with empty chairs.
He changed into street clothes and conducted a telephone interview in an empty room.
So I was a bit surprised when he suggested that we conduct our interview in an empty lot behind a disco, down a dark gravel road.
