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Depressed towns like Fort Madison (pop. 11,200), the original home of the Sheaffer Pen Co., are nevertheless willing to gamble on their future. The town has already known its share of heartbreak. In 1976 lightning struck the local J.C. Penney outlet and burned it down; it was never rebuilt. Through the 1980s, the town's largest employers -- Sheaffer and Chevron -- staged devastating layoffs. Although citizens liked to boast that Fort Madison was "a place where you can raise kids," many drifted away; since 1987 the town's tax base has dwindled 20%. To attract Goldstein and his $10 million...
HUNTING MISTER HEARTBREAK...
This new journal, also of a voyage to the New World ("Mr. Heartbreak" is J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, author in 1782 of Letters from an American Farmer), is about two-fifths aqueous, which is just enough. Raban sets out from Liverpool in a giant container ship, discovers that the ocean is even larger -- good storm action here -- and then burrows for several weeks each in Manhattan, a small and sleepy Alabama burg called Guntersville and our last frontier, Seattle...
Somewhere along the line, drugs became a convenient escape route. She took the prescription drug Percodan for the ongoing heartbreak and pain, and she dropped LSD ritually for transcendent illumination. "Drugs became a way of blunting the sharpness of the juts. Juts-tapositioning oneself," she says. "I always wanted to blunt and blur what was painful. My idea was pain reduction and mind expansion, but I ended up with mind reduction and pain expansion." Her excesses eventually landed her in a hospital emergency ward, having her stomach pumped...
...Jackson and Travis, are part of a kind of neoconservative musical move back to country basics. No outlaw image or firebrand tunes for these folks. They lay down melodies with a light country swing and a tinge of melancholy. They sing bedrock sentiments about home and hearth, loneliness and heartbreak and getting done in by the big time in the big city. "I consider myself % traditional," Black says. "And I'm new, so if I had to call myself something, it would be 'new traditionalist...