The Fall was a direct influence on the sound and lyrics of some important American bands, and Mr. Smith has never stopped insulting them.
But I was quite shocked that the audiences, very well-educated people mostly, did not know about Qutb, whose thinking, which was developed under torture in Egyptian jails, was a direct influence on Zawahiri, al-Qaida's number two.
Vigo's previous work - Zero de Conduit, an anarchic portrait of a school rebellion that was a direct influence on Lindsay Anderson's If... - had been promptly banned by the authorities.
The former, in its own witness to one man's obsessive interference with nature, was a direct influence on Melville, who acquired a copy on a visit to London in 1849, even as the whalish shades were beginning to swirl about in his imagination.
His piece on "professional" wrestling—"it is no more ignoble to watch a wrestled performance of Suffering than the sorrows of Arnulphe or Andromaque"—was a direct influence on Sontag's "Notes on Camp," and pretty much every subsequent, serious exaltation of low or popular arts and culture.
Based on the radical teaching of Paulo Freire, whose book Pedagogy of the Oppressed was a direct influence, Boal's ideas aimed to wake up the passive spectator, inviting members of the audience on to the stage to act out their real-life problems, turning them into what he called "spect-actors", and empowering them to find strategies for personal and social change.
For this reason, the networks built by StarNet should not be viewed as directional, or as indicating that any given gene in the graph is a direct influence on any other.
The fees which private employment offices must charge are barriers which prevent the proper flow of labor into the channels where it is needed and are a direct influence in keeping men idle.
Perhaps there is a direct influence: "The Ladykillers" was the first on-screen teaming of Peter Sellers and Herbert Lom, soon to be linked forever as Inspector Clouseau and Commissioner Dreyfus in four of Mr. Edwards's "Pink Panther" films.
The PCS is a direct influence on Project Mayhem, the surreal psychic terrorist organisation that Durden forms, which grows and grows, rather like the film's word-of-mouth appeal.
Playing Ratso Rizzo to Ray's Joe Buck (could "On the Bowery" have been a direct influence on "Midnight Cowboy"?) Gorman shows the newcomer how to cadge a meal and find a place to sleep, while elegantly relieving him of the battered suitcase that contains a wad of clothes and the one possession Ray holds dear, a gold watch.
