Word: mckinney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sometimes it is a sardonic assault on institutional idiocy, something Director Arthur Hiller once managed pretty well in The Hospital. Sometimes it is a sentimental plea for humanistic faculty-student relationships, sometimes a romantic comedy and sometimes The Blackboard Jungle revisited. Mostly, however, it is a mess. Screenwriter W.R. McKinney wrenches his plot endlessly, attempting to make plausible the weird shifts in tone. The leads (Nick Nolte and JoBeth Williams) and a raft of good supporting players are simply set adrift, looking for a logical line to which their bedraggled characters might cling. There are no survivors...
...soon as Nolte arrives at school, a huge dose of parental gravity gets overlayed on the cellophane. Hiller and screenwriter W. R. McKinney (an alias if there ever were one) possess Social Consciousness. They want to make a statement about an Important Issue, like those movies about bedwetting and wifebeating that TV does so well. What else but misguided do-gooderism could be behind dialogue like this...
...think morale is better than in 1969-70, but then it couldn't be much worse," says McKinney. "The psychological atmosphere is better...
...University Hall survey conducted last spring--another indication of the GSAS's coming into vogue--is expected to give a clue to how widespread the students' gripes areCrimsonJeffrey B. MinkovitzPeter S. McKinney, acting dean of GSAS...
Verba's office is literally empty, but Spence has named Peter S. McKinney, an administrator in the Division of Applied Sciences, to serve as acting administrative dean of the grad school for the academic year. The words "administrative dean" are understood to mean that Spence is reserving the crucial grad school decisions for himself...