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...County are making time with two girls they met in line. A twentyish blond from Los Angeles sings the praises of the young comic she is waiting to see: "He's young, he's hip, he's personable, he's humble. He's just himself -- that's the biggest compliment...
...totally eclectic and derivative of the guys I've heard and loved." His one advantage for playing the old-style New Orleans stuff, Woody feels, "is that I am genuinely crude." Another advantage is his ability to reproduce the powerful, wailing tone of the original jazzmen. The biggest compliment he ever got as a musician, Woody says, was when he was jamming in New Orleans and local people told him how "indigenous" his sound was. Jazz clarinetist Kenny Davern agrees: "He has sought to get that New Orleans plaintive sound, and he has really captured the thing...
...close adviser to President Mikhail Gorbachev, accompanied Crowe on an eleven-day, nine-stop tour that stretched from Murmansk in the far north to Sochi on the Black Sea. Last week Crowe was summoned to the Kremlin for an audience with Gorbachev. The Soviet leader used the occasion to compliment the man who had appointed Crowe Chairman of the Joint Chiefs in 1985: "Former President Reagan saw the way things should go and turned the situation in the right direction...
Walking With a Panther has more to it than just unorthodox rhymes, however. LL is at his best when he brags, and the first track of the album, "Droppin' Em," is classic Cool J. The hard, funk-like guitar chord and the heavy, drum beat work well to compliment LL's "I'm hard-as-hell" attitude...
...back at Bright this weekend, watching the Harvard hockey team. The Crimson is the top-ranked squad in the nation, owning the best Division I record. But Coach Bill Cleary is more likely to compliment the players' attitudes and characters than their hockey abilities...