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...Charles Willoughby, 80, General Douglas MacArthur's chief of intelligence during World War II and Korea; in Naples, Fla. One of the "Bataan Boys" who fled from the Philippines with MacArthur in 1942, Willoughby spent the next nine years as the general's confidant, companion and alter ego. After his mentor's ouster by President Truman in 1951, Willoughby retired from the service to collaborate on an authoritative but adoring biography, MacArthur...
...Welsh mountains, and they all get this folk mystique." Bates reveled in his role in Women in Love partly because it was filmed on location there and partly because he feels close to Fellow Midlander D.H. Lawrence. His part, in fact, has been interpreted as Lawrence's alter ego...
...musical context was on the back of Beck's first solo album. Truth. Flash has little to do with taste or technique or attack or anything like that. It's the hazy ability to appear with the musically unexpected. It's also a lot to do with ego, which Beck has, in abundance. He once shut down the whole band, onstage, so he could play "Foggy Mountain Breakdown," solo. That's flash...
...among those musicians who work in form-sound, minor electronics and the like. His technique and attack are unparalleled because his ideas come only out of a desire to wrench original sounds out of his instrument. Which in turn comes from his lucky combination of talent and barely-checked ego. Beck's out there because he likes to listen to himself play...
Flash: "a healthy desire to have one's licks heard; the result of talent and massive ego." Beck, Bogart, and Appice played "Jeff's Boogie" for an encore last Tuesday at the Aquarius. In the middle, Jeff Beck played "Foggy Mountain Breakdown," Solo...