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Fashion magazines are sprouting models who look like actual women. Cosmetics makers are pushing the "real" look. Get ready for the Tammy Faye Bakker backlash...
...weaken those laws as a way to spur economic growth. Another goal is to block proposed reforms of the federal mining law that would make it harder for companies to open mines on public land. "Anytime anyone gets as much power as the environmental movement has achieved, a backlash can be expected," says Oregon logger Tom Hirons...
Time and time again, the effort to assert these differences, particularly in institutions that precisely insist upon certain assumptions of universality, has been met by strong backlash and not a little anxiety. From Professor Thernstrom's railings to William Cole's reactionary tirades, the signs of conservative distress are apparent. That those who call for "reopening" debate so often seem to have controlled the debate all along is an irony not without consequence. It reminds us that the slogan "politically correct" has come to identify the correcting discipline of the politically powerful...
...emphasized rhetorical strategies that do not translate into substantive reconfigurations of power. As Susan Faludi `81 wrote in The New York Times Magazine this weekend, the writer must "[assert] herself from behind the veil of the printed page." Faludi, a former managing editor of The Crimson and author of Backlash, was calling for public speech that actually touches people and that forces us into the public. As writers, as journalists, such a call might also apply to writing; it might demand that we acknowledge the personal and political implications that such "veils" conceal...
...pain. Stores have plenty of goods on the shelves, and inflation, which had been running at an annual rate of 2,000% in 1989, was down to 60% last year. But industrial output has plunged, and 2.1 million workers (12% of the work force) are unemployed. Not surprisingly, political backlash is growing. Last week 2 million Solidarity members staged a one-hour strike to demand a new economic program...