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...Maniacs, Our Time in Eden...
ALBUM: OUR TIME IN EDEN...
...smooth fury of Our Time in Eden, the spirit of the group -- its distinctive combination of stylistic orneriness and sandblasted lyricism -- remains undiminished. 10,000 Maniacs has always been hard to classify. That's an integral part of the band's charm, and so is the obvious pride with which its members nourish their idiosyncrasy. Still, they have enjoyed a heartening commercial success, which should increase nicely with Our Time in Eden. It sounds like their best album yet. But for a group that exists so safely away from trends, it's the afterlife of the music that counts...
...conservative era" did not spring from Reaganite nostalgia for a mythical American Eden, or from a crass conspiracy of the greedy and heartless, but from international phenomena: the welfare state had grown too gargantuan, too ineffective and had to be cut back; it became clear that economies cannot indefinitely redistribute more wealth than they create. The emergence of the information society requires initiative and self-reliance rather than the setting of standardized tasks and centralized control. Moreover, the dislocations, including structural unemployment, of the "second industrial revolution" are not susceptible to the old quasi-socialist cures...
...Sierra Club and the League of Conservation Voters--he has not earned environmental accolades equal to his running mate. Reports on Clinton's environmental record--such as those outlined in a recent series of articles in The Boston Herald--reveal that Arkansas is no environmental Garden of Eden...