Sparrow-size Virginia Gibson, with sparkling blue eyes and a cheerful smile, made a suitably perky Amy, while Melisande Congdon, as the real aunt, was positively monumental in the very best Gibson Girl manner.

* A " Jumbo " body style is bigger again than a Grand Auditorium but similarly proportioned, and is generally designed to provide a deeper tone, similar to a dreadnought ( the body style was designed by Gibson to compete with the dreadnought ) but with maximum resonant space for greater volume and sustain.

Warner Bros. was willing to fund the project on the condition that Gibson sign for another Lethal Weapon sequel, which he refused.

According to Gibson, he was inspired by the big screen epics he had loved as a child, such as Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus and William Wyler's The Big Country.

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

" Cyberpunk is often set in urbanized, artificial landscapes, and " city lights, receding " was used by Gibson as one of the genre's first metaphor s for cyberspace.

The term was quickly appropriated as a label to be applied to the works of William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Pat Cadigan and others.

William Gibson would later reveal that upon first viewing the film, he was surprised at how the look of this film matched his vision when he was working on Neuromancer.

The term " cyberspace " was first used by the cyberpunk science fiction author William Gibson, though the concept was described somewhat earlier, for example in the Vernor Vinge short story " True Names ," and even earlier in John M. Ford's novel, Web of Angels.

The word " cyberspace " ( from cybernetics and space ) was coined by science fiction novelist and seminal cyberpunk author William Gibson in his 1982 story " Burning Chrome " and popularized by his 1984 novel Neuromancer.

At the same time he grew dissatisfied with the direction Gretsch ( no longer family-owned ) was going and withdrew his authorization for them to use his name and began designing guitars with Gibson.

Before that, the much smaller original island was the site of Fort Gibson and later a naval magazine.

At the end of the War of 1812, Fort Gibson was built and the island remained a military post for nearly 80 years before it was selected to be a federal immigration station.

Alvino Rey was an artist who took this instrument to a wide audience in a large orchestral setting and later developed the pedal steel guitar for Gibson.

During the recording of the third album, Gibson was let go after a dispute over money and Walker left since touring was keeping him away from his family too much.

The first successful magnetic pickup for a guitar was invented by George Beauchamp, and incorporated into the 1931 Ro-Pat-In ( later Rickenbacker ) " Frying Pan " lap steel ; other manufacturers, notably Gibson, soon began to install pickups in archtop models.

After World War II the completely solid-body electric was popularized by Gibson in collaboration with Les Paul, and independently by Leo Fender of Fender Music.

The Gibson Robot Guitar, released in 2007, is often mistaken as the first of this kind, but was preceded by the Transperformance system by at least 20 years.

John Norville Gibson Finley served as Director of the new branch, which was known as University College.

" Its first realization was the 1957 Playhouse 90 teleplay of that title by William Gibson.

The hurler ( nicknamed " Big D " by fans ) used brushback pitches and a sidearm fastball to intimidate batters, similar to his fierce fellow Hall of Famer Bob Gibson.

Over the course of his career, Gibson became known for his fierce competitive nature and the intimidation factor he used against opposing batters.

The program held onto the # 1 ratings spot from Williams ' first day, averaging about 10 million viewers weekly until February 2007, when it slipped behind its closest competitor, World News with Charles Gibson.

Althea Gibson ( August 25, 1927 – September 28, 2003 ) was a World No. 1 American sportswoman who became the first African-American woman to be a competitor on the world tennis tour and the first to win a Grand Slam title in 1956.

As the Telecaster and Stratocaster had done in other popular musical genres, Fender hoped to initiate a revolution in Jazz guitar, at the expense of competitor Gibson.

Similarly to Ibanez, ESP's chief competitor in Japan, ESP was initially known for making high quality and customized replicas of famous American guitars, including hot rodded Fender Strats and Teles, as well as Gibson Explorers.

Gretsch quickly became a legitimate competitor to both Gibson and its main rivals, Fender and Rickenbacker.

Gibson portrays William Wallace, a 13th-century Scottish warrior who led the Scots in the First War of Scottish Independence against King Edward I of England.

There are also some scientists who have expressed grave reservations about the idea that the brain forms representations of the outside world at all: influential members of this group include psychologist J. J. Gibson and roboticist Rodney Brooks, who both argued in favor of " intelligence without representation ".

Despite predictions from the music press that the band would fold without Wood, who had been the driving force behind the creation of ELO, Lynne stepped up to lead the band, with Bev Bevan remaining on drums, joined by Gibson, Richard Tandy ( now on the Moog synthesiser ), Mike de Albuquerque on bass and vocals and Mike Edwards and Colin Walker on cellos.

William Gibson ( who wrote an early script for Alien 3 ) seems particularly fascinated: a minor character in Virtual Light, Lowell, is described as having New York XXIV tattooed across his back, and in Idoru a secondary character, Yamazaki, describes the buildings of nanotech Japan as Giger-esque.

He had also separated from his girlfriend of seven years, singer-artist Jill Gibson, later a member for a short time of The Mamas & the Papas, who had also co-written several songs with him.

This new style is credited to mandolins designed and built by Orville Gibson, a Kalamazoo, Michigan luthier who founded the " Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co., Limited " in 1902.

Following the death of the club's principal benefactor,, in October 1927, the club's finances deteriorated to the extent that Manchester United would likely have gone bankrupt had it not been for James W. Gibson, who, in December 1931, invested £ 2, 000 and assumed control of the club.

Shadowrun is also influenced by the writings of William Gibson ( particularly Neuromancer ), who reacted as follows to its release.

Other projects Gilliam has been trying to get off the ground since the 1990s are an adaptation of Charles Dickens ' A Tale of Two Cities ( starring Mel Gibson ), an adaptation of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain ( which has been adapted into movies several times before ), and a script titled The Defective Detective that Gilliam has co-authored with Richard LaGravenese ( who wrote Gilliam's The Fisher King before ).

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.

William Ford Gibson ( born March 17, 1948 ) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist who has been called the " noir prophet " of the cyberpunk subgenre.

Having changed residence frequently with his family as a child, Gibson became a shy, ungainly teenager who often read science fiction.

" Noteworthy approaches using Bayesian techniques include Earman, Eells, Gibson, Hosaisson-Lindenbaum, Howson and Urbach, Mackie, and Hintikka, who claims that his approach is " more Bayesian than the so-called ' Bayesian solution ' of the same paradox.

Gallipoli was instrumental in making Mel Gibson ( Mad Max ) into a major star, although his co-star Mark Lee, who also received high praise for his role, has made relatively few screen appearances since.

Years later Dr. Margaret Gibson, the psychiatrist who had treated Frances at Austen Riggs, described Henry Fonda: “ He was a cold, self-absorbed person, a complete narcissist .”

Gibson, who had been in the Royal Observer Corps ' trophy-winning international aircraft recognition team since 1980, was unable to identify the aircraft.

Baez later met Bob Gibson and Odetta, who were at the time two of the most prominent vocalists singing folk and gospel music.

And there was a croquet court, where a Gibson Girl might be seen playing against a gentleman with a wonderful mustache ... It was quite the thing to elope by the old Chesapeake and Ohio canal boat, be married at the Ferry by the tolltaker, who was a retired parson, and honeymoon at Hilltop House.

He is most famous for his call in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series of Kirk Gibson's game-winning home run, and his disbelief at the feat by Gibson, who at the time had two injured legs.

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.

Pfeiffer then appeared as chic restauranteuse Jo Ann Vallenari in Tequila Sunrise ( 1988 ) opposite Mel Gibson and Kurt Russell, but experienced creative and personal differences with director Robert Towne, who later described her as the " most difficult " actress he has ever worked with.

Other contributors to Whole Earth appeared in Wired, including William Gibson, who was featured on Wireds cover in its first year and whose article " Disneyland with the Death Penalty " in issue 1. 4 resulted in the publication being banned in Singapore.