Word: backlasher
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...property and introduce a real free market. His vision for the future -- independence for some republics, a loose confederation for the rest -- is, in the long run, probably more realistic than Gorbachev's. But in the near term it tempts disaster in the form of a much more serious backlash than what has already occurred. While Yeltsin's boldness resonates with the impatience of much of the populace, it also terrifies, antagonizes and provokes the reactionaries. Yeltsin has people power, but his enemies have the power that comes from the barrel...
...KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION: STRANGE FREE WORLD A&M). A band of genially berserk Brits, turning out tunes with wit and -- hard to believe in this dance-mad age -- melody. With echoes of mid-period Beatles and backlash art-rock, this is pop with heart and promise...
Among other things, Wolf, a Yale graduate in literature, contends that today's women have been victimized in unprecedented ways by a "violent backlash against feminism that uses images of female beauty as a political weapon against women's advancement." This victimization produces deep inside women "a dark vein of self-hatred, physical obsession, terror of aging and dread of lost control...
...says. "But after a few days people started to ask, 'Why are they being so antagonistic to our guys? Why are they so suspicious?' " CNN, whose special privileges in Baghdad have inspired charges that the all-news network is getting too cozy with the enemy, is suffering a mighty backlash. More than 55,000 letters, phone calls and faxes have poured into CNN's Atlanta headquarters since the start of the war, about 60% of them negative. Letters to the Los Angeles Times have been overwhelmingly critical of the press. "They hate us," says Thomas Plate, who runs the Times...
...backlash against the press can also be traced to the sheer volume of media coverage. With hundreds of reporters on the story and hours of air time to fill, much of the press's attention has been focused on its own problems in getting the story. Complaints about the military's press restrictions and other roadblocks have been fodder for countless articles and TV discussions. Whatever the validity of those complaints, the arguments over the rules of coverage may portray the press as a band of arrogant, self-involved whiners...