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...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 (1987), he used electric violin and accordion...
...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 (1987), he used electric violin and accordion...
...incarnations that contain varying degrees of truth, Perot is both a folksy speaker and a spinner of international conspiracy theories. He is both a computer entrepreneur and a Bubba-like rebel. He is both a Texarkana boy delivering newspapers on a bicycle and a dashing rescuer of two employees from the depths of revolutionary Teheran. Most visibly, he is both a billionaire and a populist...
...assembled gathering, you suddenly see, through a passing haze of colored silk and crystal glass, a man/woman to your liking. Unfortuately the necessary preamble of introduction and mutual mental exploration simply isn't within your power. Call the spin-doctor. Along trots Dr. Spin, who meets your beloved's spinner. "Tony's on form tonight, a bit of drink, but nothing to impede effective performance. We have several suitable conversation topics lined up--the late 19th century Russian novel, landscape gardening - so talk won't be a problem. Physical state not so hot, but if you persevere with Tony...
TAGGING RESPONSIBILity for the L.A. riots has spiraled into a full-fledged parlor game. No one can guess who will be "it" with the next flick of the spinner. First it's Daryl Gates, then it's L.B.J. Imagine Murphy Brown's surprise, emerging from the delivery room to find herself a suspect. Who's next, the Japanese? It was, after all, a Sony HandyCam that recorded Rodney King's beating and stirred up this turmoil in the first place...