Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This bot-driven universe won't arrive until a few kinks have been ironed out. Right now, says Jeff Kephart, manager of the agents and e-merchant phenomena group at IBM, price bots don't understand that undercutting your competitor is not always smart. "This gives rise to price wars," says Kephart, who in tests has watched the sell bots give the store away in a competitive frenzy. "They're pretty dumb," he notes. "We have to give them a sense of anticipation...
That's not to say that the Chapmans' puerile offerings will rise to a place of lasting esteem. No, the point is that work once seen as scandalous takes on new meaning as culture is rocked by alien, disquieting expressions and then slowly evolves. And there are works in this show that warrant respect and have had it from critics and gallerygoers for some time...
...rise of the Times, its continued high quality and its independence make a remarkable story, especially in an era of corporate publishing, declining news readership and profit-driven efforts to dumb down coverage to the level of a TV-numbed audience. That a single family has managed this feat over such a long period of time is even more remarkable. That this particular family, at least as described in The Trust (Little, Brown; 870 pages; $29.95), by Susan Tifft and Alex Jones, managed to make and keep the Times great is astounding. In almost voyeuristic detail, the ruling Times family...
...Garcias' sophomore effort is twenty-odd tracks of the mediocrity we've come to expect from those associated with Master P. Rise to Power is the newest testament to the sad consequences of a crew with one single (in this case, the title track) putting out a whole album: an hour of mediocre flow about tittie chasing, pistol whipping and dope dealing, something the brothers apparently know quite a bit about. Currently under federal indictment for conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine, the Garcia boys can count on more credibility for the thuggishness of their lyrics, even if Juvenile, Mystikal...
...Otherwise, Ducey is excellent in looking disconnected and dispirited for the entire duration of the film, as if she's trying to rise from the dead. And she still seems like a zombie at the end, despite giving birth to a new life. She has divorced her personality from her body, and it shows in her vacant gazes...