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...Boston public schools appear to have joined the national backlash against affirmative action in education and employment...
Gifford described citizen involvement with the development process as a "backlash" against years of neglect by the city and as an effort to look out for Cantabrigians' concerns. "If the residents hadn't responded to the total abandonment by the city, it would have been much worse," she said...
Evita. Publicist: "There was Madonna backlash and maybe Andrew Lloyd Webber backlash--and the movie was horrible. This is the second year in a row the Golden Globe-winning actress--last year it was Nicole Kidman--didn't even get a nomination." Former studio head: "I don't think there was a backlash. If anything, I think there was sympathy for the movie. It took a lot of guts to make an all-out musical...
...People vs. Larry Flynt. Publicist: "I thought its reputation was inflated, and the backlash hurt. The media were interested in Courtney Love because she hadn't acted before, but she didn't do anything that Valerie Perrine or Candy Clark couldn't do on automatic pilot." Former studio head: "I didn't want to see a picture about Larry Flynt the same way I wouldn't want to see a picture about Hitler...
...Eiffel Tower from wooden toothpicks in his New Jersey basement who can be deemed altogether immune to discovery by dealers. There's no mystery about why this should be so, since a) the art market has run out of new "movements," while b) there has been a slight backlash against the star system of the art world and the excesses of its market, causing a new ripple of pseudo-penitential interest in the anonymous, the amateurish, the "naive" or "incorrupt" artist. Having run out of external primitives, America must find internal ones, and there are plenty to go around...