1.   Besides Magritte, he said, his influences include Max Ernst and Heath Robinson, his favorite illustrator and the English equivalent of Rube Goldberg.

2.   Current market-negative influences include a potential U-turn in economic policy under a Communist government away from International Monetary Fund-sponsored market-based reforms.

3.   Her smoky voice has a bluesy character, and her influences include James Taylor and Bonnie Raitt.

4.   His own influences include Kurt Schwitters, Arthur Dove, Joseph Cornell and Max Ernst, and also Edouard Vuillard.

5.   His literary influences include not only such African-American greats as Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Margaret Walker, but Pablo Neruda and William Butler Yeats.

6.   His influences included poets Dylan Thomas and Imamu Amiri Baraka, then known as Leroi Jones.

7.   Other crucial formative influences included Hank Williams, George Jones, Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis.

8.   Other influences included Rick Auerbach, a Taft product who later played in the big leagues.

9.   Other influences included Walt Disney and Dr. Seuss.

10.   Other American influences include hot dogs, Chippendale dancers and Elvis impersonators.