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Philadelphia is widely regarded as a town of fickle, uptight sports fans. One minute fans will pack Veterans Stadium to support showman (now bench-warmer) Randall Cunningham, the next they're staying home during playoff time. In what other town would an NBA franchise not sell out its playoff games...
After a three-year lull, singer Natalie Merchant and her band are back with a strong follow-up to their mediocre Blind Man's Zoo of 1989. Merchant's poetic lyrics and majestic voice are in full display on Eden, and they seem even more thoughtful--and warmer--than before. That effect is enhanced by keyboard and string arrangements and the addition of horns to some of the songs. The two opening tracks--"Noah's Dove" and "These are Days"--along with "Few and Far Between," are the disc's most compelling...
...more of the sound spectrum this time. I think our other records were a little narrow sounding. So I'm really proud of that, getting a bigger sounding record. We worked on analogue for the first time in about eight years so that was great. It did make much warmer record. I think you can see us taking more control over what we do and I think that as a result of playing the music is more relaxed. I think we were a real folkfock band in the Wishing Chair days, but I think we're getting farther and farther...
...otherwise unmistakably thick: Bush aides who normally cram the colonnade . to see famous faces stayed defiantly in their cubicles; a Bush press officer curtly warned his Clinton counterpart that the boxwood and the decorative cabbage plants were a no-spin zone. Inside the Oval Office, the atmosphere was warmer: with no aides present, the two men met for 105 minutes. While no one was saying exactly what was discussed, Clinton later showed some movement toward Bush's conciliatory stance on China, though an aide later said he still opposed most-favored-nation status for Beijing...
...altitudes where no sea should have been. By measuring the age of nearby volcanic ash, a team led by Peter Barrett at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, concluded that the whole area was probably flooded during the mid-Pliocene epoch -- when temperatures were only a few degrees warmer than today...