Word: edens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jackson has always seemed emotionally bewildered, adrift in a toy boat on a roiling sea outside Neverland. His accuser wins sympathy, but he earns pity. If he never goes to jail, he still seems condemned to solitary confinement in his own bizarre Eden...
...luscious creatures, plump and dimpled, all ruffled and improvised. In their tame placidity they bear no relation to the fearsome creatures in the Bible and the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke and Wallace Stevens. Jehovah's angels are powerful creatures; in Genesis they guard the east gates of Eden with flashing swords; in Ezekiel they overpower the prophet with awesome visions, four-headed, multiwinged and many eyed; in Revelation they do battle with a dragon. Milton describes the "flaming Seraph, fearless, though alone, encompassed round with foes." And Rilke wrote, "If the archangel now, perilous, from behind the stars took...
...Shut up, you water buffalo." Those words, shouted in January by Eden Jacobowitz, an Israeli-born freshman at the University of Pennsylvania, sparked one of the more bizarre incidents in the annals of political correctness. Jacobowitz was reacting to the noise being made by five black sorority sisters outside his dorm room. The women summoned the campus police. And though Jacobowitz, an Orthodox Jew, explained the epithet as a translation for the Hebrew behemah, slang for "fool" or "dummy," he was charged with racial harassment under Penn's hate-speech policy and threatened with suspension. The case became a symbol...
However, while the CD is good, there's nothing too new or exciting here. Half the tracks on Unplugged are from the Maniacs' last album, Our Time in Eden, which was primarily acoustic anyway, so for the most part, we don't get any unusual approaches to their songs. While there are some rougher edges on Eden, if you aren't listening carefully, you probably won't be able to tell if you were hearing the unplugged version or the album version...
Unfortunately, the chances of that happening in the near future aren't very good. After finishing their summer tour in support of Our Time in Eden, 10,000 Maniacs disbanded. In their typically understated way, they acknowledge this in the liner notes for MTV Unplugged : "Special thanks to all the fans, friends, and family who have supported us throughout the last 12 years." And while Our Time in Eden was a great album, it does seem like the time was right to call it quits. Natalie and the rest of the band seemed to become more and more distanced from...