11.   His multiple talents, warmth, and empathy for the common man made him a towering figure among Russian entertainers.

12.   Houston said he is ready to live up to the towering figures in his new contract.

13.   In France, of course, Gide remains a towering figure.

14.   In many ways his two-day itinerary will mirror the themes that made him a towering figure on the world stage.

15.   It is not that Redwood is a towering figure.

16.   Long demonized by the Communists, the Nationalist leader is treated today as simply a towering figure of modern Chinese history.

17.   Moakley remains a towering figure precisely because pigeonholing was never for him.

18.   None other than Lincoln Kirstein, a towering figure in American arts and the avant-garde, once wrote Thayer a letter praising her bold portraiture.

19.   One effect will be to block Rupert Murdoch, a towering figure in British publishing and broadcasting, from expanding in television unless he scales back his newspaper holdings.

20.   Peterson remains a towering figure in jazz.