Word: complex
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some alumni take the initiative and contribute without even being asked. But, in order to wring money out of the rest, the University tuned up its complex, aggressive fundraising machine...
After 10 years of churning out Ani DiFranco projects, Righteous Babe Records has ventured into new territory with noise-pop pioneer Arto Lindsay's new album Prize. Lindsay uses a combination of machine-generated and natural, organic instruments to lay down a complex texture for his subtle poetry...
...editorial "The Veritas of Irony" (Oct. 13) Richard S. Lee has embraced features of Jedediah S. Purdy's thinking that do not point to a very complex view of human relationships or how the world works in general. His discussion of the effects of irony on Harvard life amounts to reductive oppositions such as ironic/serious, inside/outside, true/false and superficial/deep...
...Coming Out Day is the most opportune moment to posture. By ostensibly contributing to a greater good--namely freedom from having to hide one's affections--all grandstanding, all obscene posters (e.g. "Have you tasted your own menstrual blood? How about starting with your partner's?"), all reductions of complex human identity to the size of a piece of poster-board appear justified...
Pretty neat, you think? Just wait until the third generation of shopping agents moves out of the lab. Even now, folks at M.I.T. and IBM are preparing for a world in which every transaction becomes a complex trade deal between a pricing bot acting for the site and a shopping bot acting for you. "Dynamic pricing, that's the big notion," says Professor Pattie Maes, director of the software-agents group at the M.I.T. media lab. "After all, fixed prices have been around only for a couple of hundred years...