* Bill Nunn as Radio Raheem, a towering young black man who always carries around a huge boom box blasting only Public Enemy's " Fight the Power "

Formerly known as Richmond Hill ( and not to be confused with the neighborhood of the same name in the borough of Queens ), Lighthouse Hill acquired its present name when the Staten Island Range Light, towering 141 feet ( 43 m ) above the Lower New York Bay, was built there in 1912.

Los Angeles sculptor Robert Graham created the towering, bronze Retrospective Column ( 1981, cast in 1986 ) for the entrance of the Art of the Americas Building.

Famed architect Oscar Niemeyer was lured from Rio to design the sinuous curves of the Copan Building, and the Itália Building became its towering neighbour.

The Gooderham Building is the focal point of one of Toronto's most iconic vistas: looking west down Front Street towards the building's prominent rounded corner, framed on the sides by the heritage commercial blocks along Front Street, and with the skyscrapers of the Financial District towering in the background.

While the arrangements of spaces in this structure is inconsistent, its relationship to its site, separation of living from service spaces, and deep window recesses echo of what would become his stark, strong, towering style.

The most striking visual and striking structure of Teotihuacan is the towering Pyramid of the Sun.

He is the man behind both the Lopers, and the Super Soldiers, towering cyborg soldiers that were heavily armed and armored.

Food eaten at the Carnival includes perlini ( multi-coloured, sugar-coated almonds ) and the prinjolata, which is a towering assembly of sponge cake, biscuits, almonds and citrus fruits, topped with cream and pine nuts.

Overlooking the city is towering triple-peaked Illimani, which is always snow-covered and can be seen from several spots of the city, including from the neighbor city of El Alto.

This species is designated towering cumulus ( Tcu ) by ICAO.

There is no stratiform type in this group because by definition, even very thick stratiform clouds cannot have towering vertical structure, although they may be accompanied by embedded towering cumuliform or cumulonimbiform types.

Cumulonimbus ( Cb ) is a towering vertical cloud ( family D2 ) that is very tall, dense, and involved in thunderstorms and other inclement weather.

Although mature Eucalyptus trees are usually towering and fully leafed, their shade is characteristically patchy because the leaves usually hang downwards.

" On top of this foundation is laid " towering layers of guitars and synthesisers ".

Tehran's climate is largely defined by its geographic location, with the towering Alborz Mountains to its north and the central desert to the south.

Beyond the coastal bluffs, there is an area of rolling hills that encompasses the driest desert land ; this area ends to the east with the Andes towering over it.

This is the paradox: he is out of nature and hopelessly in it ; he is dual, up in the stars and yet housed in a heart-pumping, breath-gasping body that once belonged to a fish and still has the gill marks to prove it ... Man is literally split in two: he has awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.

The town also features a sea port and is in proximity to several mountains, the most notable being " Old Demon Tooth ", usually depicted as a towering pointed peak leaning slightly to the side.

A fragment of Bacchylides suggests that she threw herself off a cliff, in Bibliotheke it is noted " when she found him dead she hanged herself ," and Lycophron imagined her hurtling head first from the towering walls of Troy.

A historic, rambling, and quintessentially New England building, the White Turkey Inn was situated on several bucolic acres with towering trees and ponds at the intersection of U. S. Route 7 / Federal Road and what is now referred to as Candlewood Lake Road.

" Risi is probably akin to " rise ," and so means " towering person " ( akin to German Riese, Dutch reus, archaic Swedish rese, giant ).

It was originally designed, by William Chadwell Mylne, to look like a towering Scottish castle, and is now much-loved in the area.

However the later temples built in Java were influenced by Indian Hindu architecture, as displayed by the towering spires of Prambanan temple.

However the later temples built in Java were influenced by Indian Hindu architecture, as displayed by the towering spires of Prambanan temple.

By now Harmony could see that most of the adults in the train were winded and resting, or else siphoned off from the games by the challenging lure of the great cliff towering above them.

After the firm's first plan was discarded due to a need for more office space, Cobb developed a new plan around a towering parallelogram, slanted away from the Trinity Church and accented by a wedge cut into each narrow side.

The four-iwan format, finalized by the Seljuqs, and later inherited by the Safavids, firmly established the courtyard facade of such mosques, with the towering gateways at every side, as more important than the actual buildings themselves, and they typically took the form of a square-shaped, central courtyard with large entrances at each side, giving the impression of being gateways to the spiritual world.

He then confronts several prototype Übersoldaten, towering monstrosities coated in armor, powered by hydraulic legs and carrying powerful fixed weapons.

Enclosed by towering rocks and watered by a perennial stream, Petra not only possessed the advantages of a fortress, but controlled the main commercial routes which passed through it to Gaza in the west, to Bosra and Damascus in the north, to Aqaba and Leuce Come on the Red Sea, and across the desert to the Persian Gulf.

Lloyd George's uncle was a towering influence on him, encouraging him to take up a career in law and enter politics ; his uncle remained influential up until his death at age 83 in February 1917, by which time his nephew was Prime Minister.

Although genus types with vertical extent are often considered a single family, the International Civil Aviation Organization ( ICAO ) further distinguishes towering vertical clouds as a separate group by specifying that these very large cumuliform and cumulonimbiform types must be identified by their standard names or abbreviations in all aviation observations ( METARS ) and forecasts ( TAFS ) to warn pilots of possible severe weather and turbulance.

The release of Pornography was followed by the Fourteen Explicit Moments tour, where the band finally dropped the anti-image angle and first adopted their signature look of big, towering hair and smeared lipstick on their faces.

Artist Norman Rockwell's famous painting The Problem We All Live With depicted a tiny Ruby Bridges being escorted by four towering U. S. marshals in 1964.

Located at the far northwest of Slovenia where the borders of Slovenia, Austria, and Italy meet, the valley is embraced on the north and south by the towering peaks of the Karavanke Mountains and the Julian Alps.

Characterized by towering live oak trees, strawberry farms and pristine lakes, this small town has been growing rapidly.

The city is in a river canyon, surrounded by towering mountains.

" Art Eggleton said that " a towering giant " was lost from the political scene.

In 1930, Capone's sister Mafalda married John J. Maritote at St. Mary of Częstochowa, a massive Neogothic edifice towering over Cicero Avenue in the Polish Cathedral style.

The architecture is massive in style with towering exterior walls surrounding a complex of courtyards, temples, administrative offices, and monks ' accommodation.

In architecture and the decorative arts, the towering figures of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow Four would give Scotland its very own " school " of modern design and help create the " Glasgow style ".

The main church, cruciform in the “ transitional style from Norman to Early English with a clear French influence ”, is an ornate structure built of local granite with Caen stone dressings, with a high altar with solid round pillars and the nave supporting towering arches.