The artificial constraints of the empty stage push the actor in new directions.
The gardeners entered the empty lot, pushing in the bottom of a metal gate on the Lower East Side, ducking under it and dragging their tools behind them.
Some of the new restaurateurs admit that they face wrath in Cuban supermarkets when they pull out wads of notes to stock up on scarce beer, milk and cheese, leaving shelves empty and pushing prices higher.
Though most galleries were locked and display cases empty, I pushed through a half-open door and came upon a magnificent collection of 18th- and 19th-century wood-carved deities and monarchs from Nuristan, a mountainous province northeast of Jalalabad.
If you need to keep an eye on the stove and your hands are empty, try push-ups at the edge of the counter top.
Once, in Avenel, as he sat perched on his exercise bike, in his empty white room, pushing and pushing on those dusty pedals, he said Rachel's name out loud and felt nothing.
Theorists speculate that the rest takes the form of a cosmological constant, first proposed by Einstein--an energy in empty space that pushes on the fabric of space-time.
It is a vanishingly small number of people in America who have domestic help or yacht crews, which could then be spared from their service to empty bedpans and push wheelchairs.
Yet what's really scary in "Contagion" is how fast once-humming airports and offices, homes and cities empty out when push comes to shove comes to panic in the streets.
