Word: fletcherize
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...need for McMurphy is not even suggested. Finally, there is the problem of Big Nurse, the chief authority symbol in McMurphy's little world and his main antagonist. In the book, a good deal of the tension between them is oddly sexual. In the film, Big Nurse (Louise Fletcher) is merely a prim, quite sexless nag and a symbol only of niggling institutionalism. So nothing of any dramatic power gets going between her and McMurphy...
...flaccid, middle-aged cop (Paul Suchecki) glibly compares the number of used cars in a lot to the quantity of hemorrhoids or crotch hairs he has. This tally isn't his only vulgar observation and surprisingly, they all slip by inoffensively. But Peter Fletcher's version of the naive cop doesn't jibe with his cohort's naturalness. His lithe, eager responses to the fat cop are always a little too slow in coming--his resemblance to an inept Stan Laurel fails to complement Suchecki's realistic performance...
...opponent, who trailed by 16,000 votes at press-time, is a vice president of the city's largest bank, the American Fletcher Bank...
...Fletcher says he views the reduction in black admission--along with the DeFunis Case, cutbacks on social programs and the current debate in the scientific community over IQ--as attempts "to legitimize white supremacist beliefs and practices." He implies that these attempts are deliberate efforts to make people skeptical of their fellow students...
...hurts people in the midst of a severe national and political crisis," he says. "They need to unite across nationalities, and it's hard to do so, except on the basis of equality. Fletcher sees the polarization between black and white students as a reflection of their skepticism about each other, and adds that there's a "tremendous amount of patronizing" on the part of white students...