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sistance" to the government has given prosecutors a powerful tool for persuading (or, some critics say, coercing) defendants to cooperate, which in turn has resulted in more convictions...
...When Craven advances tresses, silken moustache, tapering figure), John Lynch does upon that tree, ax in hand, at the climax of Ardrey's script, he quite well...
...Yet, in my view, the guidelines fail because they seek to achieve an unobtainable objective: uniformity of federal sentences...
...Ingmar Bergman has Mary's homeliness and bad temper could only be an imped- always struck me the same way...
...Toward this end, all federal district courts could put into place a program that some already employ: creating a sentencing panel 3. I miss important issues of COMMONfor each case...
...The Federal Sentencing Guidelines were a well-intentioned response to a real problem...
...In a white nightgown, Colin is a pale wraith disappearing into darkness...
...The first view of Colin, so buried in his invalid's bedding that he seems to be trapped in a cocoon...
...S 12.45.0-8244-0744-8 reassess it, keep it alive (and) put it to work on current questions...
...She has made not so much iness, the socially complicated struggles between heroine and a children's movie as another Agnieszka Holland film about household staff, the near animism of the garden cure, the scorn life dancing within, and finally out of, the jaws of death...
...The hilarious but slightly scary sight of the entire manor staff, assembled at the newly emboldened Colin's behest, every face covered by a surgical mask...
...iment to their social progress...
...Does he then avenge himself on na- M.G.M...
...2. My relationships with colleagues Given the high quality of most-although certainly not allfederal judges, I would rather entrust them with the sentencing are deteriorating because I keep decision, with the hope that, in most cases, the sentences they hounding them to see their copies mete out are those most likely to be appropriate and fair...
...The guidelines and those who draft- • If your total score is greater than ed them deserve nothing but respect...
...Once the children have re18: 8 October 1993 Commonweal newed the garden, only the capitulation of Lord Craven to love Knott, as Dickon, Mary's nature-boy assistant, is pleasant but and duty remains to be accomplished...
...But Herbert Marshall's bottled-up fury in the hears the pleas of his son...
...Medlock, ascending and glaring up at Mary...
...It is duty and Europa, suggest a stage talent stimulated by the resources of pleasure to the Lennoxes to be social stars, and any child of film...
...The parole board would continue to serve in its admittedly imperfect role of providing a national perspective • Score yourself one point for every on sentences...
...What is the puritanical, mingy Medlock doing in that flamboyant get-up...
...Although the entry on nineteenth-century India to two bright young members of the Holland in the Dateline Encyclopedia of Film lists only cinBritish Raj, Mary is handed over to native servants who keep ematic schooling, most of the best moments here, and in Europa, her well out of the way of her partying parents...
...Virtually every case and every defendant is different, making 1. I spend an inordinate amount of uniformity undefinable, let alone elusive...
...decision and therefore a true climax, while the Holland ver- But the most memorable appearance here is Laura Crosley's sion, with its vaporish aristocrat simply yielding to the tug of as Martha the maid, a performance that may be either acting his son's love, is a capitulation rather than a climax...
...Heydon Ardrey made it explicit that, since the mother was killed in a Prowse makes Colin magnetic and funny even in the little fall from a tree, Lord Craven's hatred of nature (and of life it- hypochondriac's most hysterical moments...
...Her tight little face and wary eyes repel the easy characters and acts of free will...
...facts and people are not easily reduced to formulas...
...You end up liking Mary and cheering her on to his straying father...
...But Kate Maberly as Mary gives perhaps the most son...
...It's a rather too mystical resolution, especially since most deliberately uningratiating performance I've ever seen from of the preceding drama has proceeded from the interaction of a child actor...
...Germany and constantly switching his allegiance from com- 10/8/9 munism to fascism and back again in a desperate effort to stayL Commonweal 8 October 1993: 1 alive, she portrayed the story's horrors directly enough, yet twin sister in Yorkshire...
...Hodgson brings can't project the essential image of the character: Pan in this about by stressing the telepathic bond between father and trousers...
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...But the film's most problematic feature is its resolution, a problem that is also in the novel...
...Meanwhile, I don't want to analyze her performance...
...Only by breaking into her instinct to render her subject with equal measures of lyri- the garden and making herself its restorer can Mary unwarp cism, mordancy, and gallows humor fulfills itself in the boy's both her spirit and the body of her cousin...
...enough in terms of camera placement and cutting (when she Garden's heroine, Mary Lennox, is no political refugee, wants to suggest the complementary natures of the cousins in yet she, too, in a way, is a victim of ideology, a domestic ide- their first meeting, she can think of nothing better than alterology that might be expressed as "children must be adorn- nating close-ups), she is resourceful when it comes to large ments to their parents and class or else invisible...
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...Her pity and her flam- tions of a biologically parched society...
...The film might have been called Quite a home...
...version was closer to the mark...
...Lawrence for kids would their ideologies perpetrate...
...Burnett shared with It was an unlikely but happy inspiration to assign this Lawrence certain beliefs: the restorative powers of nature, the Polish director of harrowing adult movies to direct the British essential goodness of instinct, the need to fight the deformachildren's classic, The Secret Garden...
...Given that the guidelines are the result of a great deal of hard work by a number of very intelligent people, it is hardly surprising that they have their supporters and their good points...
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...be smart alecky but not inaccurate...
...But Holland, ever faithful to affection we want to feel for children and force us to take the her source, seizes this opportunity to stage a vivid and amus- moral struggle of her character as seriously as we would that ing bit of hocus-pocus in which Colin calls across continents of any adult...
...When that progress, along with I won't soon forget:their lives, is buried beneath rubble during an earthquake, The very first shot of Mary being dressed as if she were a the little survivor is sent to live in the home of her mother's mannequin by her Indian servants: a little girl robotized by the very hierarchy that is supposed to exalt her above the natives...
...But then the camera shifts a little to the left to reveal the formidable housekeeper, Mrs...
...In the 1949 M.G.M...
...and reducing it to a mathematical formula, the guidelines substitute one imperfect system for another...
...ingly disciplined performance from one so young...
...the result is far from grim...
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...I The actors, with one exception, couldn't be better...
...That last shot not only indicates Holland's skill but a tendency to overreach for the sake of flashing effects...
...Crosley a real sure, it is the Holland version that is truer to the book, but this actress or simply the most irresistible female adolescent on only shows that adaptors shouldn't be afraid to improve upon the face of the earth...
...In Europa, Europa, Holland made an unnerv- children...
...ing sentence...
...Born in groupings, costuming, and props...
...Thus, the outcome turns upon a warped but very real sense of duty within the domestic tyrant...
...To be or merely a genius stroke of casting...
...Prior to sentencing, all three judges would review and discuss the case, giving the sentenc- early Mass always get to the maging judge the benefit of the other judges' opinions before pass- azine rack first...
...Given the pecuself), focused on that tree...
...nightmare of Stalin and Hitler waltzing together amid the havoc To call The Secret Garden D.H...
...version (good but but only after Maberly illuminates the girl's hard-won trilargely inferior to Holland's), scriptwriter Robert Ardrey came umph over her own emotional meagerness...
...Holland responds to boyance insured that this wouldn't be another embalmed all this and to everything else in the book-the Gothic spookadaptation of a much-loved book...
...And grand Maggie ture, thereby destroying still another member of his family, or Smith rightly keeps Mrs...
...This for the quackery of Colin's medical treatment, the Dickensian is a very faithful adaptation because in Frances Hodgson Burnett pathos of the final reunion-wholeheartedly and with theatrical of Manchester, England, Agnieszka Holland of Warsaw, panache...
...Medlock is an avenging splash of blood...
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...And the secret garden is to be the salvation of both a naked Jew...
...Especially stirring: Mary, looking over a railing, bids a fond farewell to her cousin as he walks down a huge staircase...
...Mary investigates and makes two discoveries: she has a ing into and out of the arms of women who might desire him little cousin, Colin, supposedly crippled, who is being cossetwhen he is a clothed German only to betray him when he is ed to death...
...Medlock from being a one-didoes he accept the fact that the natural world both destroys mensional monster by registering the frustration and the and restores, takes yet gives...
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...Well, getting a sharp intake of breath from the audience, certainly, but still...
...The hallways echo with later leaps from another bath to keep a homosexual would-be strange cries and a certain garden is kept locked behind high seducer from seeing his circumcised penis, and keeps bound- walls...
...But as the centerpiece of the gar- liarity of Holland's conception of Lord Craven (Swinburnian den, it is the object of his son's love...
...Andrew would much prefer to kiss her...
...The aunt turns out to be dead, her widower, The Wild Body rather than Europa, Europa: the hero leaps Lord Craven, is a morbid recluse, and a hard-bitten housekeeper naked from his bath to escape Nazi thugs on "crystal night," has charge of Misselthwaite Manor...
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...LJ *RYE or Like most matters of complexity, the debate over the Federal Sentencing Guidelines does not lend itself to easy resolution...
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...sistance" to the government has given prosecutors a powerful tool for persuading (or, some critics say, coercing) defendants to cooperate, which in turn has resulted in more convictions of other wrongdoers...
...In her red wrapper, Mrs...
...The panel would consist of the sentencing judge WEAL because the folks who go to and two of her or his colleagues...
...Though Holland's cinematic style is conventional Poland, has met a soulmate...
...It's an astonishup with a much more muscular, more truly dramatic device...
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