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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have these economically marginal groups been forgotten? As many of the nation's "offical" poor live in rural areas as in cities. Yet, the poor in the cities are more visible to the powerbrokers who also inhabit urban areas. The heavy concentration in smaller areas means that the urban poor can band together with greater ease to express discontent...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Stagnation Without Representation | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

...effective for small farmers. Because of the credit crunch after the crash of 1987 and the millions of dollars in loans that went bad in the drought of the late eighties, the low interest rates of the past year and a half have not helped farmers as much as urban professionals. The constant battles over GATT and the EEC's agricultural subsidies have been more on behalf of big farming; small producers only feel the benefits of decreased foreign subsidies over several years, when market prices reset themselves...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Stagnation Without Representation | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

...BOTTOM LINE: By lacing his small town twang with urban soul, Mellencamp brews an all-American sound...

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

...social conscience remains as keen as ever, but his small-town twang has evolved into a lusher, worldlier sound. The album, like the diary of a Hoosier who went to the big city and returned tougher and wiser, is tempered by the neon images and jukebox sounds of urban America, melding straight-ahead electric-guitar licks with the staccato rhythms of the modern melting...

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

...undertow" and declares, "Well, the deeper I drown/ Lord, the higher I'll go." The lyric, with its suggestion of cleansing renewal, demonstrates the essential optimism at the core of Mellencamp's dire vision and his faith in the healing power of music. By venturing into the urban wilderness, Mellencamp has discovered the core of the American soul...

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

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