Of Japan's influence on the genre, William Gibson said, " Modern Japan simply was cyberpunk.

The asteroid was named by discoverer James B. Gibson after his pet cat, " Mr. Spock ", said feline indeed being named after the Star Trek character.

The New York Times columnist Paul Krugman agreed with this assessment, writing: " The Gibson character was presented as a man who refused to get involved until his own family was hurt — then, he went to war for personal revenge .... As Lind said, the truth is that that's more or less the opposite of patriotism, which is about making sacrifices for the national good, not serving your personal motives or interests.

On the July 10, 2011 edition of Fox News ' The Big Story, host John Gibson interviewed Michael Ledeen, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute ( AEI ), and said " some are calling the global war on terror something else, something more like World War III.

Gibson said there would have been a battle there and then, had he been present.

In 2007 Mayor Shirley Gibson of Miami Gardens said that she will no longer allow any more public housing projects in Miami Gardens.

In Rolling Stone, Peter Travers said, " The strong impact that Gibson makes as damaged goods is diluted by selling Jerry as cute and redeemable.

Paul said he first saw the " new " Gibson Les Paul in a music-store window, and disliked it.

Although his contract required him to pose with the guitar, he said it was not " his " instrument and asked Gibson to remove his name from the headstock.

Gibson, a pharmacist with a shop in High Street, was admired by all sides of politics for his civic leadership and tireless work for the city, especially during World War II, when he is said to have visited every ship that called at the port.

Downey defended Gibson during the controversy surrounding The Passion of the Christ, and said " nobody's perfect " in reference to Gibson's DUI.

Screenwriters Mel Gibson and Benedict Fitzgerald said that they read many accounts of Christ's Passion for inspiration, including the devotional writings of Roman Catholic mystics.

In The Nation, reviewer Katha Pollitt said, " Gibson has violated just about every precept of the ( United States Conference of Catholic Bishops ) conference's own 1988 " Criteria " for the portrayal of Jews in dramatizations of the Passion ( no bloodthirsty Jews, no rabble, no use of Scripture that reinforces negative stereotypes of Jews, etc.

When asked about this scene, Gibson said, " I wanted it in.

During Diane Sawyer's interview of him, Gibson said:

On February 4, 1969, Gibson appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and said the Major League Baseball Players Association ( MLBPA ) had suggested players consider striking before the upcoming season began.

“ When I gave up a grand slam to Pete LaCock ,” Bob Gibson said later, “ I knew it was time to quit .” The Cardinals honored him with " Bob Gibson Day " in September 1975.

Barnes Wallis said of Gibson:

Gibson Guitar Corporation, the maker of Howe's second electric guitar ( which he was still playing forty years later ), said that Howe " elevated rock guitar into an art form " and " helped define a new style of music known as art rock.

However, even though she views Yakko and Wakko's behavior around beautiful girls repugnant, she has reacted similarly to attractive men, most notably Mel Gibson ( She said she would " marry that man ").

Anderson later apologized and said that probably put too much pressure on a young and inexperienced Gibson.

Mel Gibson later regretted that his portrayal of Tom Garvey was so stubborn that the audience lost sympathy, and said that he had been miscast for the role because he was too young and " pretty " at the time.

His other guitars include a Cherry Red Gibson SG, a Green Custom Jazzbird, a Green Jazzmaster ( which he destroyed at Feeder's headline set at Download 2005 and later said he regretted it, but still has the neck to make a new guitar with ), a Gibson Firebird, a custom ESP " Gibstang ", a Sunburst Gibson J-200 Acoustic and a natural finish Yamaha acoustic ( for recording ).

There was also a set neck 4000 version in 1975 and 76 ( neck set like a Gibson Les Paul ) which had a 20-fret neck, dot inlays, no binding ( similar to the 4001S ) but only a single bridge position mono pickup.

In his induction speech in 1966, Williams included a statement calling for the recognition of the great Negro Leagues players: " I've been a very lucky guy to have worn a baseball uniform, and I hope some day the names of Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson in some way can be added as a symbol of the great Negro players who are not here only because they weren't given a chance.

In January 1982, former US Secretary of the Treasury William Simon and a group of investors acquired Gibson Greetings, a producer of greeting cards, for $ 80 million, of which only $ 1 million was rumored to have been contributed by the investors.

Gibson now uses the name Dobro only for models with the inverted-cone design used originally by the Dobro Manufacturing Company.

Mantle twice hit balls off the third-deck facade at Yankee Stadium, nearly becoming the only player ( along with Negro Leagues star Josh Gibson, though Gibson's home run has never been conclusively verified ) to hit a fair ball out of the stadium during a game.

Although Port Gibson no longer has a Jewish community, it boasts the only Moorish Revival building in Mississippi and the oldest synagogue in the state, the Gemiluth Chessed synagogue, built in 1892.

Most of the city lies in Gibson County, with only a small portion extending into Madison County.

For much of the 1970s, he used a Gibson Les Paul DeLuxe, some with only two mini-humbucker pick-ups and others modified with a third pick-up in the " middle position " ( a DiMarzio Superdistortion / Dual Sound ).

Also in 1979, the St. Louis Cardinals retired Brock's jersey number 20, an honor that had previously been bestowed upon only three other Cardinals players ; Stan Musial, Dizzy Dean and Bob Gibson.

Venus also became only the sixth woman in history to win the singles titles at both Wimbledon and the US Open in consecutive years, the others being Martina Navrátilová ( twice ), Steffi Graf ( twice ), Althea Gibson, Maureen Connolly Brinker, and Helen Wills Moody ( twice ).

In the 1975 election, the only Liberal to be elected was Gordon Gibson Jr. as the party scored a dismal 7. 24 %.

Downey was able to return to the big screen only after Mel Gibson, who had been a close friend to Downey since both had co-starred in Air America, paid Downey's insurance bond for the 2003 film The Singing Detective.

In a 2005 episode, Eddie Kelly and Bunny Gibson — one of the most famous couples to appear on American Bandstand in the Philadelphia years — were the only two to make cameo appearances on the acclaimed TV series.

In January 1982, former United States Secretary of the Treasury William Simon and a group of investors acquired Gibson Greetings, a producer of greeting cards, for $ 80 million, of which only $ 1 million was rumored to have been contributed by the investors.

Schon currently endorses Gibson guitars, and has a limited edition signature Les Paul model entitled the " Neal Schon Signature Model Custom Les Paul ", of which only 35 were made according to the Gibson Custom website, ( 80 according to Neal Schon's website.

* January 15-In his first year of eligibility, former Cardinals pitcher Bob Gibson is the only player elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Fairfax was informed that Byron was approaching his left rear from the direction of Minshull Vernon, but he deployed only two regiments of infantry and his own troop of cavalry to face them, while his main body pushed forward against Gibson.

He once held the career record in strikeouts with 3, 508 and was the only player in the 3, 000 strikeout club for over 50 years until Bob Gibson recorded his 3, 000th strikeout in 1974.

The story revolves around Molly Gibson, only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s.

Although Weekes was not on Queen Victoria's original list of sculptors, being selected to work on the project only after John Gibson declined to participate, his group occupies the preferable south side of the finished monument.

* Laurie Ann Gibson ( season 5 only )

Due to the film's low budget ( A $ 380, 000 ), only Gibson was given a jacket and pants made from real leather.

Without any metafictional grandstanding, Gibson nails the texture of Internet culture: how it feels to be close to someone you know only as a voice in a chat room, or to fret about someone spying on your browser's list of sites visited.