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Hornsby's lyrical performance is also somewhat weakened by an occassional inane or meaningless chorus. "It's alright, it's okay, Hey don't you worry about a thing," just doesn't pull it. On an album which so brilliantly weaves homespun tales of Southern life, the inferiority of generic pop lyrics truly stands...
Lynch's importance to Magellan -- and to all of Wall Street -- went far beyond the buying and selling of any one week. At a time when heroes are few and many financial wizards have seemed obsessed by greed and ambition, Lynch was a reassuring presence, a homespun stock picker who disdained the pretensions of the experts and regularly beat them all. His 1989 best seller, One Up on Wall Street, made him almost a household name. "Lynch was more than a great money manager," says Donald Phillips, editor of the Chicago-based newsletter Mutual Fund Values. "He was a credible...
...JOHN TEACHES NEW ORLEANS PIANO (Homespun Video). "I think," says Dr. John in his best gone-fishing voice, "we're gonna start off with a little Frankie and Johnny, a la Professor Longhair." No matter if you don't know about the good professor (the past master of R. and B. keyboard, Crescent City style) or aren't sure about the good doctor either (one of Longhair's foremost disciples, the winner of a 1990 Grammy Award for a duo jazz vocal and a kind of living archive of musical history). Just sit back and watch Dr. John work...
...chefs have shown more culinary flair than Rosenzweig. Among her classic dishes: chimney-smoked lobster glossed with tarragon butter and buttressed against a crisp cake of threadlike Chinese noodles; roast quail with rhubarb bedded down on dandelion greens; and homespun corn cakes topped with caviar and creme fraiche. Similarly, Joyce Goldstein, chef-owner of the stylish Square One in San Francisco, creates an aura of flavor unity on a menu that may offer crusty Italian bread, Russian mushroom soup, pungent Korean steak and a very American spiced persimmon pudding...
Andy Lipkis, 34, a bearded, boyish, homespun half saint, knows something about delivering dreams. His life is a demonstration in respectable alchemy, creating gold from nothing. Inspired by the belief that planting trees can reduce smog, protect the ozone layer, feed hungry people and, when all is said and done and planted, save the planet, Lipkis has become a global Johnny Appleseed. The organization he founded 15 years ago, TreePeople, is directly or indirectly responsible for planting more than 170 million trees around the world. At the center of TreePeople's mission is the belief that people can save themselves...