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...asked to imagine doing so. Only this time, two more groups were asked to eat - or imagine eating - to the beat of a metronome. Those who ate at a normal pace - one chip for every 15 seconds - came to the same misguided conclusions as other students: predictions did not correspond to their actual levels of enjoyment. Yet those who ate chips more slowly, one every 45 seconds, had very different results. Their forecasts were almost completely accurate...
...Puryear is well understood as a man whose art should never be understood too quickly. What he makes are powerfully ambiguous forms, things that almost correspond to familiar realities but not quite, so that they speak in subtle terms to undisclosed locations within ourselves. It's not uncommon to hear him described as one of the most formidable living American artists. Agreed. And if what he makes is also weirdly beautiful, well, sometimes a question mark is the sexiest curve in the world...
...tricked the homophobes into loving and mourning for a man whom they would have just as easily dismissed as monster or freak had they known his secret earlier. She has implicitly shown that sexuality need not be the defining characteristic of a wizard, that it does not correspond to some standard stereotype—and in doing so, she has moved beyond “gay pride” and towards true acceptance...
...joke” is based, however remotely, on reality: that some final club members are frighteningly pompous about their “ornate” clubs, and that criteria for an “ideal” date at most of these institutions would not correspond with the Harvard admissions office’s pamphlet on diversity...
Ancona started in the 1970s studying groups of professionals, including nurses, communications-equipment salesmen and drug researchers. She notes that the conventional wisdom about what makes a team work, such as clearly delineated roles and team spirit, tends to correspond to team-member satisfaction, but those variables often don't line up with financial metrics like sales revenue. "The internal model is burned into our brains," she says, "but research and the actual experience of many managers demonstrate that a team can function very well internally and still not deliver desired results. In the real world, good teams, according...