Patterson's chapters are very short, which creates a lot of half-blank pages; his books are, in a very literal sense, page-turners.
Frantic Asian Football Confederation officials had phones in one hand and half-blank team-sheets in the other, the South Korean players were still tweeting from the bus when they should have been halfway through their routine and there was the unmistakable white-haired 2006 World Cup-winning manager, sharing a joke with the Chinese members of his coaching staff.
There is a well-known 'gaffed' deck called 'the half-blank deck' or 'the magic blank deck.' Half the cards have printed faces with blank backs, the other half are slightly 'short' and have printed backs with blank faces.
Azimuth now works with a mix of modern ébauches, or half-finished blank movements, and assembled movements from Swiss watch makers which it modifies to its own designs.
He pointedly included the thirty copies of the first edition that the Venetian printer had sent to Galileo without the lunar etchings — the ones with a full page and three half-pages blank — and cited a letter that Galileo wrote to a Medici official, in March, 1610, in which he referred to the partially blank copies.
When he was 12, the revelation that he could ride the local bus system free with a $15 punch and books of half-used blank transfer tickets fished out of a Dumpster behind the bus depot gave him a sense of what he could do (legal or otherwise) if he put his mind to it.
The machine gun fire is yet another industry trick: While real, the gun was modified for stage purposes to make it safe and inoperable for firing live rounds it fires "half load" blanks in the video, which are half as loud as the real thing.
"It's hard, when you face, within a second and a half, Jagr point-blank and Lemieux point-blank," Brodeur said.
There were half a dozen blank spaces where other leaders had once stood.
Most states also set a low passing grade, allowing those who leave even half the questions blank to pass.
She encouraged her writers, in their scripts, to consider leaving half a page blank to underscore the importance of wordlessness to directors and actors.
