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Sexual harassment involves the abuse of power, to coerce sexual relations and/or the use of sex to intimidate another. The common ingredient in all cases of sexual harassment is an element of coercion or intimidation which gives the harasser control of the situation...
...quite the contrary, that the public debate of industrial policy probably will resort to more caricature and people will see it as the age-old debate between free market and central planning. That will be fairly short-lived. After the election, regardless of who wins. I hope that that element of industrial policy will become quiet for a while, and the more interesting portion of the debate will continue...
...collages that most clearly represent the "French" aspect of his work. He put this explicitly in the title of an early one, The French Line, 1960. Its main element is the top of a diet-toast package torn and shaded into a shape vaguely suggestive of a liner at sea seen bow-on. Its stripes suggest deck chairs and awnings, and they convey one into the atmosphere of luxury and fine-tuned bodies that was part of the fantasy raised by the S.S. France, and first-class ocean travel in general, two decades ago. The diet wafers, the label tells...
Motherwell has never used collage as a means of surrealist shock treatment. His work sits squarely in the formal tradition of early Braque, not in the poetic irrationality of Ernst. But its play between form and meaning is no accident. The "found" element in Unglueckliche Liebe (Unhappy Love), 1974, is a fragment of sheet music whose words apostrophize the miseries of passion: "Begone, begone, ye children of Melancholy!" But set on its dark ground, with a rectangle of slaty blue and a marvelous, soaring shape of white paper-Mallarme's swan, making a personal appearance-its stilted sentiment turns...
...most impressive element is Adams' score, a synthesized 24-track tape whose only "live" sounds are the brass near the end. Bearing the independent title Light over Water, the music is cast in six mostly continuous movements. The piece reaches a new level of complexity for a minimalist work, moving away from the school's strict repetition and steady-rhythm tenets toward something more expansive and formally flexible...