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Thompson's modus was dismayingly simple. He usually worked towns with populations between 7,000 and 25,000, where he reckoned that people are more trusting than in street-wise big cities. Stores and gas stations in these towns often stock the blank counter checks of state banks, and he would simply go in and collect a clutch of such paper. Then with a shoe-box-sized checkwriting machine, he would imprint the amount of the check in a neat, official-looking script. The amounts were always the same: a small odd-dollar figure that seemed like a reasonable...
...Stuart ones like Anne. The river, in a characteristic breach of modesty, he names for himself: the Charles Riber. Like Champlain, Captain Smith represented the river as a broad high-way to the Pacific. But only for three leagues; he had never been beyond that so he left it blank and hoped no one would notice...
...intrigue--great reading. When those photographed were not interested in the camera, unconsciously narrative moments are caught. Or conversely, Samuel Cooper's three old women at a 1950's affair are interested in anything but the wedding and their role in it--they focus on food, the camera, blank space...
...Cambridge voting register has a blank next to Feinberg's name, indicating an "independent," Feinberg said...
...comfortable conference room where reporters were waiting to watch the program, laughter broke out. The picture on the color television set remained blank, but the voices of the candidates came through clearly on the loudspeakers...