Word: backlashers
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...relations debacles had almost no effect on his stature at home, where media coverage of his blundering antics was virtually nonexistent. Abroad, however, his bullying and bigotry have prompted Western governments to consider easing their pressure on President Boris Yeltsin to push through his economic reforms or risk a backlash by the likes of Mr. Z. All of which is a fairly impressive accomplishment for a man who, up to last month when his spectacularly misnamed Liberal Democrats won 23% of the popular vote, was universally dismissed as a clown...
...DEBATE IN THE CHURCHES. So much lively spiritual activity might come as a welcome sign to mainline churches, whose memberships have dwindled over the years. Some see the movement among conservative Christians as a backlash against secular society. "Angels are reassurance that the supernatural and the realm of God are real," says Richard Woods, a Dominican priest and an author of books on angels and demons. "They are a reaffirmation of the traditional vision of a Christian world when that vision is under attack." Retired rabbi Morris Margolies, author of an upcoming book on angels in Judaism agrees...
...years ago, that internecine friction was challenged by Gloria Steinem in Revolution from Within and especially by Susan Faludi in Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women. You might call Naomi Wolf, whose Fire with Fire (Random House; $21) has just been published, a colonist of the territory that Steinem and Faludi staked out. Their message was that women were being fed cynical lampoons of feminists and not-so-subtle suggestions that liberation was responsible for any feelings they had of frustration or of "superwoman" tension. Steinem in particular countered such propaganda by preaching self-esteem...
...ways of achieving its basic requisites -- honor, stoicism and freedom of movement. Geronimo: An American Legend takes a tragic view of those values. Everyone who tries to live by them ends up dead, imprisoned or disgraced. In that sense, it is very much a '90s movie, a conscious metaphorical backlash against newer, softer definitions of masculinity. Here good soldiers and Apaches are equally the victims of compromising, "civilizing" forces...
Andrew Cuomo, who serves as HUD's czar for the homeless, is among those who dismiss such ideas. "You can't force people into treatment programs," he says. "It won't work." But Cuomo thinks he understands the roots of the backlash that Hamill represents. "People are afraid, and I think that fear is vented in terms of anger," he says. "They see all these groups that have raised hope by saying they could help, and the situation is worse now than it was 10 years...