For the better part of half a century, Picasso has been the dominating art personality of Europe and the Western world — a small, intense man who, like a magnet, has attracted intellectual interest and public curiosity and, like a furnace, has heated and fused them into a gigantic core of influence, adulation, admiration, disapproval, and some hatred, inside which he has lived and worked.
"But that book influenced me a gigantic way, and it also influenced me in a subconscious way.
Like Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair, Mr. bin Laden is reaching and trying to influence a gigantic worldwide audience.
The Irish's new athletic director, Jack Swarbrick, told reporters over the weekend that the six years remaining on Weis's gigantic contract would not influence his job status.
But Last Resort, with its mix of heartfelt social insight (the then-radical subject of asylum seekers) and improvisatory, documentary-style film-making, has exerted an influence of gigantic proportions on a whole generation of British cinema.
"His influence was gigantic," said Sam Devlin, a boat designer and builder in Olympia, Wash., who as a young man some 25 years ago made a pilgrimage to Gloucester just to meet Mr. Bolger.
After going out on the road with two bands – that's a gigantic new family – my influences have just spread out even more".
However, the same can't be said for other channels whose influence isn't quite as gigantic.
Through gigantic campaign contributions and overall clout, they have enormous influence over who gets elected to bargain with them, especially in state and local races.
The nature of the programs as gigantic by-pass operations, set to avoid the negative influence of the bureaucracy, tends to be perpetuated' [ 50, 56].
