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Like a troubadour adrift on the blue highways of America, John Mellencamp has hitched his muse to the hopes and broken dreams of the heartland. Even before the mid-'80s, when he renounced the pop artifice of his John Cougar past and took back his given name, he had found his calling as a spinner of hook-laden odes to the ordinary man. Early hits that hinted at the darker dimensions of suburbia, like Jack and Diane and Pink Houses, sold millions and made Mellencamp an MTV star. On later albums, like Scarecrow (1985) and The Lonesome Jubilee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heart of Darkness | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

...band formed in 1987 and featured Yukki Gipe on vocals; Corey Loog Brennan, Kenny Chambers and Clay Tarver '88 on guitars; Bill Whelan '88 on bass and Chris Cougar on drums. Saturday night's line up was considerably different--Gipe and Tarver are the only original members left in the band...

Author: By Daniel J. Sharfstein, | Title: Have We Seen the Last of Harvard's Big Rock Bands? | 9/24/1992 | See Source »

...FRANCISCO--Violet the orangutan is on the pill. King L'ear the bison was rendered harmless with a bovine vasectomy And Maxine the cougar is using a Norplant-style implant...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: The News of the Weird | 2/22/1992 | See Source »

...death disturbs me. Makes me want it too. She took something that was mine, that death was mine!" Eleven years later, in 1974, at the age of 45, Sexton poured herself a tall glass of vodka, went into her garage and closed the door, started up the old red Cougar, turned on the car radio and waited for the exhaust fumes to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pains of The Poet -- And Miracles | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

After singles play against Houston two days later, it looked like the Crimson was going to score a major upset, leading 4-2. Henikoff beat the Cougar's Kristin Samuelson, 6-2, 6-1, to give the Crimson the early lead. After Houston's Catharine Bloomfield defeated Elmuts at number-six, deLone, Ettus and McNabb won to make it 4-1. Although Minkus lost a close three-set match, Harvard still needed just one match to beat the Cougars...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, | Title: Netwomen Go 2-2 Over Promising Spring Break | 4/2/1991 | See Source »

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