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.

Early makers of jazz guitars included Gibson, Epiphone, D ' Angelico and Stromberg.

Celebrities attending the event included Dean Torrence, Lou Adler, Jill Gibson, and Nancy Sinatra.

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.

Over the years, Wireds writers have included Jorn Barger, John Perry Barlow, John Battelle, Paul Boutin, Stewart Brand, Gareth Branwyn, Po Bronson, Scott Carney, Michael Chorost, Douglas Coupland, James Daly, Joshua Davis, J. Bradford DeLong, Mark Dery, David Diamond, Patrick Di Justo, Cory Doctorow, Esther Dyson, Mark Frauenfelder, Simson Garfinkel, William Gibson, Dan Gillmor Mike Godwin, George Gilder, Lou Ann Hammond, Danny Hillis, Steven Johnson, Bill Joy, Jon Katz, Leander Kahney, Richard Kadrey, Jaron Lanier, Lawrence Lessig, Paul Levinson, Steven Levy, John Markoff, Wil McCarthy, Glyn Moody, Charles Platt, Josh Quittner, Spencer Reiss, Howard Rheingold, Rudy Rucker, Paul Saffo, Evan Schwartz, Peter Schwartz, Alex Steffen, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, Kevin Warwick, Dave Winer, Belinda Parmar and Gary Wolf.

Security expert Steve Gibson analysed the WMF vulnerability and reached the conclusion that it had been included intentionally by Microsoft as a " backdoor ".

Clover's main competition in the Bay Area jazz-funk scene was a band called Soundhole, whose members included drummer Bill Gibson, saxophonist / guitarist Johnny Colla, and bassist Mario Cipollina ( younger brother of John Cipollina ).

Gibson County is a county located in the southwestern part of the U. S. state of Indiana and is included in the Evansville, Indiana – Kentucky Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The committee included, Canon Theodore Gibson, Rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Coconut Grove, who was to become the leader of Miami's Civil Rights Movement, David A. Douglas, manager of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company and others such as Rev.

Early additions to the town included those by Murphy, Reeves, Hunsaker, Gibson, Warren, Reeder, followed by Kensington, Campbell, Boyd, Bennet, Fitzjarrald, and more.

On one of the featurettes included on the DVD release of the film, director Richard Donner reveals these scenes were ad-libbed by Mel Gibson.

Notable representatives have included Edward Gibson, W. E. H. Lecky, Edward Carson, Noel Browne, Conor Cruise O ' Brien and Mary Robinson.

This settlement, which became known as the Gibson Community, included a school and a church building by 1860.

The committee included Winthrop Aldrich, Mortimer Buckner, Floyd Carlisle, Ashley T. Cole, John J. Dunnigan, Harvey Dow Gibson, Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, Percy S. Straus, and many other business leaders.

Guests on his final night included U2, who presented Kenny with a rare Gibson guitar and a pair of shades.

Gibson experimented with an SG that included the same Moog active electronics that had previously been used in another Gibson model, the RD Artist.

The Ellice Islands were declared a protectorate by Captain Gibson, RN of HMS Curaçao between 9th and 16 October of the same year ; Banaba Island ( or Ocean Island ) was included within the protectorate in 1900 and then in the colony in 1916.

His roster included Hall of Famers Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, and Judy Johnson.

The regular cast included Hollywood veterans such as Henry Gibson, George Kennedy, Cheech Marin, and Joan Van Ark.

Despite a childhood that included health problems like rickets, and a serious case of either asthma or pneumonia when he was three, Gibson was active in sports in both informal and organized settings, particularly baseball and basketball.

Gibson lost nine games against 22 wins, despite his record-setting low 1. 12 ERA ; the anemic batting throughout baseball included his own Cardinal team.

In December 2000, their song " It's All Your Fault " was featured in the film What Women Want with Mel Gibson, but was not included on the movie soundtrack.

Pran Nath's students included La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Terry Riley, Michael Harrison, Sargam Shah, Charlemagne Palestine, Henry Flynt, Jon Hassell, Douglas Leedy, Don Cherry, Lee Konitz, Jon Gibson, Yoshi Wada, Rhys Chatham, W. A. Mathieu, Sufi Pir Shabda Kahn, Catherine Christer Hennix, George Brooks ( Saxophonist ), and Simone Forti.

The STS 41-B crew included commander Vance D. Brand, making his second Shuttle flight ; pilot Robert L. Gibson ; and mission specialists Bruce McCandless II, Ronald E. McNair and Robert L. Stewart.