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...Does "contemporary community standards" mean local or national standards? A movie that could cause an uproar in Fort Wayne might be considered routine in New York (or, conceivably, vice versa). The problem before the court involves Marvin Miller, a film producer, who mailed out five advertising brochures for a movie and various books. He was convicted in conservative Orange County, outside Los Angeles, on the basis of a police poll purporting to demonstrate that, whatever the rest of the country might think, California's community standards had been violated. Civil libertarians argue that such a doctrine would require both...
...tighten your belt, turn up your collar," the veteran hobo tells the kid, "and you can be emperor of the North Pole." The kid, called Cigaret (Keith Carradine), is a blowhard spoiling to be top bum in the territory. He keeps pestering "A No.1" (Lee Marvin) for some tutoring on the fine points of jumping trains and dodging conductors.A No. 1 tosses a few nuggets of road wisdom to his would-be protégé, but saves his energies and talents for his epic battle with the sadistic conductor Shack (Ernest Borgnine), toughest train man on the tracks...
There are, however, somewhat discomforting jabs at allegory and significance. Marvin is the soiled knight striving after honor, Borgnine the dark primitive force he must conquer. Aldrich's idea of making his stereotypes into mythic archetypes is to pump them up with hot air. When Borgnine and Marvin finally lock in combat they seem less likely to wreak havoc than to simply deflate each other...
...observation might do credit to the most radical of ex-convicts and criminal lawyers. Instead, it is the product of thoughtful reflection by U.S. District Court Judge Marvin Frankel. After seven years on the federal bench in New York City, Frankel found himself appalled by "the unbridled power of the sentencers [including himself] to be arbitrary and discriminatory." He considered the problem in his off-the-bench time, then produced an informative monograph closely analyzing what is wrong with the current approach and suggesting what can be done to repair it. Published last month, Criminal Sentences/Law Without Order (Hill & Wang...
Rift. Incredibly, the Interior Department balked. In a state of confusion since the firing of several BIA officials and the illness of Secretary Rogers Morton, who is being treated for prostate cancer, Interior had reacted to the entire Wounded Knee affair with stubbornness. Marvin Franklin, the acting director of the BIA and himself an Indian, said that he would rather quit than talk with AIM leaders. "This is strictly a law-enforcement problem, a Justice Department matter," he told TIME Correspondent David Beckwith. "How can you deal with criminals? How can you handle revolutionaries...