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...this misery she dare not speak, for other circumstances require that she be a brick: the death of her father and the loss of Norland, the stately digs where she and her all female family have been safe and content; the genteel but palpable anxiety of her mother (Gemma Jones), trying to be brave as poverty and spinsterhood loom for her girls; the hysterically misplaced passion of her sister Marianne (Kate Winslet)--the "Sensibility" of the title--nearly dying when that cad John Willoughby (Greg Wise) leaves her for a woman better endowed financially; the romantic occlusion that prevents Marianne...
...polished. Tom Conti looks too young for Miller's antihero (although the script is inconsistent about his history) and seems too ingratiating. Perhaps the idea is to suggest that king-of-the-jungle fantasy persists in the most genial men; even so, Conti evokes intellectual posturing more than yearning. Gemma Jones is suitably antiseptic as his first wife, but Clare Higgins seems a bit stale for the younger second one, and Deirdre Strath just shouts as a grownup daughter...
Reading from a police report, Gemma said a Harvard police officer was using a urinal in the bathroom when Burns "grabbed the officer's genitals." The defendants were then placed under arrest, he said...
Both of the defendants in yesterday's cases declined opportunities to challenge Gemma's version of the events...
During yesterday's hearing, a prosecutor gave details of the of the January 18 arrests that had not been made public previously. Assistant District Attorney Anthony Gemma said the defendants had been "exposing their genitals and masturbating" in the center of the bathroom...