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Experts routinely warn companies not to get caught with lax policies, which can enrage juries and inflate settlement costs. Consultants' on-site training is usually straightforward: if what you're thinking even vaguely involves sex, keep it to yourself. Ballard poses hypotheticals such as, What if someone gets the Victoria's Secret catalog at work? "If someone makes a comment about that, you get rid of it," she says. Parallax, her company based in Santa Monica, Calif., teaches that one complaint is enough to change office policy--and such advice is becoming the standard in business schools and financial newspapers...
Last week all that changed. In a paper published in the journal Nature, psychologist Martha McClintock of the University of Chicago reported what may be the best evidence yet of human pheromones. In an elegantly straightforward experiment, she was able to speed up and slow down the monthly cycles of a group of women by exposing them to a whiff of sweat from other women. The ovulatory command, she believes, was carried by pheromones...
While this may be true, Walker's reply doesn't explain how some black artists have managed to avoid or somehow outlive similar controversy, like Robert Colescott and Kerry James Marshall who parody stereotypes in a more literal, straightforward way. Similarly sexual, scatological, or racially-charged, their work seems less threatening (and to my mind less satisfying), because it's far more unambiguous and transparent than Walker's graphic obliquity and elliptical narratives. Walker remarks, "There's lot of information that's not revealed for you. The viewer probably knows most of the story, maybe even more than...
...have to be really straightforward andstrict," Sykes said. "They do test your limits tosee what they can get away with... You just haveto keep your cool." Of course, that's true of anychild, but at Mission Hill the challenge is toestablish an elusive rapport with students fromwhat seems like a different world...
...friendships with women can all be traced back to her dysfunctional relationship with her mother. But most of Cline's arguments, including her suggestion that Hall's work can be read as exploring the various facets of the "alienated individual confronted with the mystery of the universe," are straightforward and can be useful lenses through which to view Hall's work...