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Auto-safety advocates and editorialists insisted that air bags save many more people than they kill, and worried that the backlash will go too far.
But public support failed to materialize, Starr's report ignited a backlash, and Congress lost its nerve.
It could have been A Walk on the Moon , My Son the Fanatic , The End of the Affair , Dick , Sleepy Hollow , Run Lola Run , Toy Story 2 , Princess Mononoke , Cookie's Fortune , American Movie , or the barely-noticed black comedy Six Ways to Sunday . It could have been--whatever their problems-- The Sixth Sense , American Beauty , The Blair Witch Project (backlash schmacklash, it scared me), October Sky , or The Matrix . It could have been a poignantly silly comic-book movie that I seem to be alone in loving: Mystery Men .
The proximity of the two women's deaths inspired a flurry of silly comparisons, which in turn inspired a backlash of equally silly commentaries pointing out their differences.
So far, in the name of equality, we are willing to tolerate rather intrusive regulation of dating practices in corporate or university settings, but one can sense a coming backlash favoring the principle that students old enough to vote should be old enough to make a responsible decision about their sexual lives.