" He has also cited filmmakers like Satyajit Ray, Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini as a major influence on his career.

Musti, a cat character created by Belgian cartoonist Ray Goossens, was also cited as an inspiration for both Miffy and Hello Kitty.

Ray Charles is often cited as inventing the soul genre with his string of hits starting with 1954's " I Got a Woman ".

The most commonly cited include the series of Chamber's Street loft concerts, New York, curated by Yoko Ono and La Monte Young in 1961 featuring pieces by Jackson Mac Low and Henry Flynt, the month-long Yam festival held in upstate New York by George Brecht and Robert Watts in May, 1963 with Ray Johnson and Allan Kaprow that was the culmination of a year's worth of Mail Art pieces, and a series of concerts held in Mary Bauermeister's studio, Cologne, 1960-61 featuring Nam June Paik and John Cage amongst many others.

Among the synonyms of Castor fiber was cited the one-word name Castor with references to six pre-Linnean works ( Gesner 1598, Rondelet 1554, Jonston 1650, Dodart 1676, Ray 1693 and Aldrovandi 1649 ).

But most authors cited by Linnaeus – Eleazar Albin, Ulisse Aldrovandi, John Ray and Francis Willughby – called it lanius cinereus major or similar, which is a near-literal equivalent of the common name " Great Grey Shrike ".

Extremely popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor of what would become rock and roll, for his jazz and blues-influenced music and his animated stage personality.

In interviews East Bay Ray has cited the playing of Syd Barrett on Pink Floyd's first album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, as well as the music of the Ohio Players, and the guitar playing of Elvis Presley side-man Scotty Moore ( with his trademark echo ), as influences.

Satyajit Ray cited Italian filmmaker Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves ( 1948 ) and French filmmaker Jean Renoir's The River ( 1951 ), which he assisted, as influences on his debut film Pather Panchali ( 1955 ).

* Ray Durham-traded to the Oakland A's in the middle of 2002, cited as a potent base-stealer and " rent-a-player ": an impending free agent who would likely attract large offers from other clubs with larger available payrolls than Oakland's ( he would eventually sign with the San Francisco Giants ).

She incorporated photographic techniques during the filming of Boys Don't Cry — including the use of time-lapse photography when displaying the dimly lit Nebraska landscape and inherited stylistic influence from avant garde photographer Man Ray, who Peirce has cited as an inspiration on her work.

" McCready has cited Ace Frehley, Michael Schenker, Jimi Hendrix, George Harrison, Joe Perry, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eddie Van Halen, Jimmy Page, Eddie Hazel, UFO, and Randy Rhoads among his influences.

The current line-up of Haller, Wilson, Fleming and Watson has been cited as being ' the strongest version of the band ' by the industry professionals and as frontman Ray Haller explains ' All this interest lately, has come out of the blue and it's phenomenal how well the band is being received by everyone.

With all this in mind, Major Ray made an announcement in The Western Star ( reference cited ) on August 20, 1958:

Bypassing station seven to save time, Young and Duke arrived at station eight on the lower flank of Stone Mountain, where they sampled material on a ray from South Ray Crater for about an hour.

:: Keen returns to Earth only to find the Vorticon mothership hovering above with its deadly X-14 Tantalus Ray cannons locked on to eight of Earth's greatest landmarks: Big Ben ( London ), the Sphinx ( Cairo ), the Sydney Opera House ( Sydney ), the Statue of Liberty ( New York ), the Eiffel Tower ( Paris ), the Colosseum ( Rome ), St Basil's Cathedral ( Moscow ), and the White House ( Washington D. C .).

He also worked on multiple occasions with prominent directors: Henry Hathaway ( eight times ), Ray Enright ( seven ), Edwin R. Marin ( seven ), André de Toth ( six ), and most notably, his seven film collaborations with Budd Boetticher.

* November 25-In The No Más Fight, in New Orleans, Louisiana, Sugar Ray Leonard recovers the WBC's world Welterweight championship with an eight round technical knockout of Roberto Durán.

In 1994, Ray Silverman, a Swedenborgian minister and literary scholar, thoroughly revised and edited My Religion, organizing the eight unwieldy sections of the first edition into twelve distinct chapters with subheadings to clarify their contents.

A 23-year-old Ray Charnley topped the club's goalscoring chart with twenty, in his first season as a professional, and went on to repeat the feat for seven of the eight seasons that followed.

He was born the last of eight children, including six older sisters and an older brother, later bandmate Ray.

* November 13-Tragedy in the ring: Ray Mancini retains his WBA world Lightweight title by knockout in round fourteen in Las Vegas over Duk Koo Kim, who passes away five days later, leading to the instituting of twelve rounds at the most as the mandatory fight distance and mandatory eight counts quickly.

Ray Knight replaced Pete Rose at third base for Cincinnati in 1979 and the rest of the Reds starting lineup still included six of the great eight: Bench, Morgan, Foster, Concepcion, Griffey and Geronimo.

Lidström became the fourth defenseman in league history with as many as five Norris Trophy wins, joining Hockey Hall of Fame members Bobby Orr ( eight ), Doug Harvey ( seven ), and Ray Bourque ( five ).

Ray Brown was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and had piano lessons from the age of eight.

Ray Barbuti was born in Nassau County, New York and attended Syracuse University where he won the IC4A championship at 400 m in 1928 in a time of 48. 8 seconds, and once scored eight touchdowns in one game.

Coastal shopkeeper Les's optimism has carried him and wife Ray through eight traumatic married years, which includes the loss of their children and subsequent suspicion that they were somehow involved.

Known collectively as the Dudley Boyz, Buh Buh Ray and D-Von dominated the ECW tag team division, winning the ECW World Tag Team Championship a record eight times and defeating the four major tag teams in ECW: The Public Enemy, The Eliminators, The Gangstas, and Sabu and Rob Van Dam.

Known collectively as the Dudley Boys, D-Von and Buh Buh Ray dominated the ECW tag team division, winning the ECW World Tag Team Championship a record eight times and defeating teams such as The Eliminators and The Gangstas.

We currently anticipate converting approximately six to eight company-owned Ruby Tuesday concept restaurants to the Marlin & Ray ’ s, Truffles, or Wok Hay concepts in fiscal 2012.

His tenure in Carolina was brief, as the Hurricanes traded him after eight appearances to the Florida Panthers for forward Ray Sheppard on March 24, 1998.

In the second episode, The Earth Explodes, Keen encounters a Vorticon mothership stationed above Earth, armed with eight X-14 Tantalus Ray cannons, each of them preparing to destroy eight of Earth's major cities.

He spent the previous eight seasons as the pitching coach the University of South Carolina under Ray Tanner.

The major work of his life was the eight volume Catalogue of Fishes ( 1859 – 1870, Ray Society ).

In 1914 he was elected county clerk for Ray County, a post he held for the next eight years.

The evil alien Ro-Man Extension XJ-2 ( called " Ro-Man " by the humans ) has destroyed all human life on Earth, except for eight humans, using the " Calcinator Death Ray ".

Buh-Buh Ray ( renamed " Bubba Ray ") and D-Von Dudley would go on to World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ), winning the World Tag Team Championship eight times, as well as the WWE Tag Team Championship and WCW Tag Team Championship once each.

Jackson injured his shoulder, and catcher Ray Fosse, attempting to separate the combatants, suffered a crushed disk in his neck, costing him three months on the disabled list.

On stage, keyboardist Daryl Hooper would handle the bass parts via a separate bass keyboard, in the same way as Ray Manzarek did with the Doors.

* Vivian " Frogmouth " Solis: a troublemaking, out-of-control stripper friend of Doyle's who initiates separate affairs with both Ray and Maggie while ineptly negotiating her way through the lives of several local gangsters.

Held by just four men under the command of Lance Corporal Ray Parry, the Australians fought off four separate attacks, killing more the 25 and wounding many more over the space of twenty minutes.

Examples of prolation canons from different eras include Le Ray Au Soleyl by Johannes Ciconia ( late 14th century ); the entire Missa prolationum by Johannes Ockeghem ( mid-15th century ), in which each separate section of the mass explores a different prolation ( or different gap between entries and relative speed of each voice ); the Agnus Dei from the Missa L ' homme armé super voces musicales by Josquin des Prez ( late 15th century ); the Agnus Dei from the Missa L ' homme armé by Pierre de la Rue ( early 16th century ); the Canon a 4 per Augmentationem et Diminutionem, the last in a set of 14 canons written as an appendix to the Goldberg Variations, by Johann Sebastian Bach ; and in the 20th century, the Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten by Arvo Pärt ( 1976 ).

Kai, Ray, Max and Tyson went their separate ways and rejoined their old teams so that they have a chance to beat each other at the World Championship.

Ray Scott was no fan of the separate audio concept and temporarily left CBS for a job calling a regional slate of college football games for NBC.

This leads to an argument, which in turn leads to Ray and Claude going their separate ways.

The author, Ray George, recognised the similarities to other species of Panulirus, such as Panulirus longipes, but regarded the number of distinctions qualified this as a separate species.

Sun developed a separate network display protocol, Appliance Link Protocol ( ALP ), for the Sun Ray system.

The best-known recordings were made by Rosemary Clooney and Bing Crosby — who both appeared in the film — as well as separate recordings by Eddie Fisher, and the Ray Conniff Singers.

Ray leaves and begins to cover his tracks by checking into two separate motels.

Ray translates a sentence of Zur Judenfrage and interprets it as an assimilationist position “ in which there is no room within emancipated humanity for Jews as a separate ethnic or cultural identity ”, and which advocates “ a society where both cultural as well as economic difference is eliminated ”.

However, it transpired that Eve had never divorced her previous husband Ray, causing Fred to separate and divorce once again.

They separate and when Jack is badly beaten, Martha donates blood to him but admits to Alf Stewart ( Ray Meagher ) she no longer loves Jack.