In 2011, a year after the absence of female jumpers in Vancouver generated extensive coverage as well as backlash, the I.O.C. voted to add the event to the lineup in Sochi.
Well, maybe "backlash" is too strong a word, but there is no doubt that once the hype cycle reached its zenith late last year, the rising chorus of voices declaring they are over MOOCs seemed to just keep getting louder.
The movie is about the fallout from these billboards, as Hayes grapples with her grief as well as backlash from people in town ― particularly a belligerent, goofy, racist cop played by Sam Rockwell, a man who is fiercely loyal to the ailing Chief Bill Willoughby (Woody Harrelson).
In the upcoming days, it's almost inevitable that there will be a player, coach or executive who will slip and say something ugly or ignorant, and they will mostly likely have to respond to the well-deserved backlash that will follow.
I don't know if you've been following the pre-coverage for "Girls," but there is so much out there — including an admiring profile that I wrote about Lena and the making of the show — that viewers were already well into the backlash, and even the backlash-to-the-backlash, before tonight's episode even aired.
But, as Hamilton was well aware, a backlash was beginning.
A recession might well produce a backlash against those who have found it hard to fit in.
But tracking everyone is a different matter: "There could well be a backlash of people wanting literally to go off-grid," Rawlinson says.
Also, there's a tendency for investors to want top universities rather than less lustrous colleges, as well as a backlash from private landlords – and the perennial British problem of finding land to build on.
Well, when the backlash starts – as it certainly now will – against football, with all its bling, bust-ups and bloated self-importance, don't let's lose sight of what happened three months ago.
