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...much so quickly. The Lanusse government had treated his arrival in Argentina like the coming of the bubonic plague. Some 30,000 troops, backed by tanks, sealed off Buenos Aires' Ezeiza Airport to all but a few carefully screened Peronistas and newsmen. Later, as troops continued to surround the airport hotel where Perón had taken a suite of rooms, his supporters began to grumble that he was being held prisoner. Perhaps fearing riots, the government removed the troops and allowed Perón to drive under military escort to a Buenos Aires suburb, where...
...picks the riffs to lead off each song, and he guides the whole band's attack. He is not interested in Hendrix's wall of sound, or Clapton's trio virtuosity. Again, Beck is primarily interested in hearing himself play. In fact, my theory is that he tends to surround himself with relative mediocrities just in order to emphasize his own talents. Bogart and Appice are perfect examples: Rod Stewart and Ron Wood were not. His songs are thus simplistic, riff-oriented, and written with spaces only Jeff can fill...
...uneasiness is gotten over, there isn't really much to hate about it. It is an imaginatively and efficiently designed place to do work, emphasized by its Rube Goldbergian technologically great studio space. But it isn't a place on would want to live in, to call home, to surround one's life with its vision, shapes and materials. The edges are too hard, the materials too inorganic, the shapes too alien, the spaces too large, and the vision too monumental. All things which are only criticisms if one asks that one's work spaces be also spaces...
...outright incitement, to civil war. It provides for block chiefs, first aid and surgical facilities, alarm systems and arms caches. "Neither waste nor unduly save your ammunition," the handbook advises. "Concentrate your fire on whoever seems in command or carries the most dangerous weapons. Try to surround your enemies, firing without pity...
...talk was not cheap, neither was secrecy. To shield its doings from unauthorized eyes, the Committee for the Re-Election of the President spent heavily (it will not say how much) to rent paper shredders and to surround its headquarters at the Doral Hotel with security guards. Wackenhutt Corp., which supplied security personnel, had to hire about 250 extra guards at $2.25 to $2.75 an hour for each gathering...