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...family circle of gifted painters, who surrounded him with protective confidence. They are his godfather Cuno Amiet (1868-1961), his cousin Augusto Giacometti (1877-1947), and his father Giovanni (1868-1933), a forceful colorist who in 1915 recorded the 14-year-old Alberto's intense features in a fluent idiom derived from Cezanne. There can be few other artists who had the luck to grow up in such a garden of visual talent...
...Herman F. Eilts, 51, who like Kissinger is a German-born naturalized American. Eilts, who studied at Ursinus College and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, is one of the State Department's ranking Arabists, with a permanent Foreign Service classification of minister. He speaks fluent Arabic, was posted to Teheran, Jidda, Aden, Baghdad, London and Tripoli before serving for five years as Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. After leaving that post in 1970, Eilts joined the faculty of the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pa., where he wrote eruditely on such obscure facets of U.S. Middle...
Along the way, he manages to dally with two Cossack women and one semi-Chinese Amazon known as the Silk One. He picks up fluent Russian and pushes into Pushtu and Persian. As usual, his feats are preposterous and irresistible-if they happen to strike the reader in the right mood. Well and good, but Fraser had better not rest on his laurels. American Flashmaniacs can hardly be expected to wait much longer for him to come across with the great man's oft-hinted-at memories of cutthroat days at Little Big Horn and gunfights with Kit Carson...
Betts' genius taken for granted, the real star of this album is piano man Chuck Leavell. Taken from the bank of Allman running buddy Alex Taylor, Leavell gives the band depth, and an added soloist. His playing, whether it's out front, or with the ensemble, is fluent and varied throughout. His chording underneath Gregg's vocal on "Southbound" focuses the rhythm section, and keeps time on the twelve bar bridge. His solo shows off his Otis Spann influences, rolling chords and full notes, all done in the middle ranges to avoid the piano's occasionally fragile sound...
...could rave on and on about the rare delights of this highly unusual show; and one rave at least should go to English Bassist Ray Cane and his fluent onstage combo that keeps the Eastside Playhouse in the earthquake zone. *T.E. Kalem