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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...
...Rockies, perhaps too rosily, are increasingly being regarded as the new American heartland. They hold out a promise not just of scenery and jobs but also, most important, of old, back-country values and certainties -- like home, hearth and family -- that have seemingly gone astray in many urban centers. California never offered those. California offered liberation and excitement. "We just decided that Pocatello, with its low crime and good schools, was the place we wanted to raise a child," says Peter Angstadt, 38, a transplant from Fremont, California. He moved in 1987, and in 1989 became mayor of the Idaho...
...states on the range have become a magnet for telecommuters, yuppies and just plain folk searching for the new American heartland...
Successful at his career, and by outward appearances happily married to actress Lisa Hartman (Knots Landing), Black has become even more introspective about the best things in life -- including love and residency in Texas. The heartland heartthrob's first album, released in 1989 when he was younger and single, was titled Killin' Time; now 31, less single and a lot wiser, Black finds life more precious; No Time to Kill is the title of his new CD and its best song...
Sidey is not surprised that following a story into the U.S. heartland was so rewarding. Although he has spent 35 years reporting and writing for TIME in Washington -- experience he put to good use in this week's Essay on the pressures and perils of working there -- he has never lost his fascination for what he calls "the machines and methods of America: mining, cattle ranching, plows, the things that make this country work." As a journalist new to the Capitol, he was once approached in a Senate hallway by Lyndon B. Johnson, then the majority leader: "He stared...