But he added that each partner had signed an agreement not to exert any kind of influence over the magazine.
JS: Because most people will associate it with a punk movement or a more kind of violent movement than dancehall or a kind of reggae influence.
The persistence — the calcification — of these traditions exerts a kind of levelling influence on the speech, irrespective of who's giving it.
Dr Frowd agreed: "They do have a kind of Windsor influence and I don't think that family is very attractive," he said.
When it comes to federal aid, their stations in Washington give them votes and a kind of internal influence that Governor Pataki, Mayor Giuliani and Mayor-elect Bloomberg don't have.
In a kind of reverse influence, artists are using video in different ways in performance, as seen in the New York debut of Christopher Wheeldon's company, Morphoses, at City Center in October.
But overall, when I look at how the Gnostic impulse shapes Western thought today, what I see is less a surrender to materialism than a kind of divided influence.
And then, as the years went on, Mapplethorpe's portraits, flowers, and nudes took front stage, and the S & M pictures were integrated into the history of his work — always there as a kind of invisible influence on the way people read his other imagery.
Mr. Pascoal, blind since birth, who taught himself harmony by banging on different pieces of metal in his grandfather's blacksmith shop, has been a kind of secret influence on many jazz performers, from Miles Davis (with whom he played, on the album "Live Evil") to the pianist Jason Moran.
