Word: awards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Academy Award nominations, as usual, are perversely inconsistent. There's always one movie that's favored to sweep the Oscars and comes up with a giant zero on Nomination Day. Usually these unpopularity candidates are Steven Spielberg movies, and this year Academy members greeted Empire of the Sun with the same resounding raspberry they offered E.T. and The Color Purple...
...sympathy. After giving Oscars to Henry Fonda and Paul Newman more for distinguished careers than for dubious performances in their nominated roles, and after honoring Marlee Matlin with the best of intentions for what was an adequate performance, John Huston would seem to be an irresistible choice. A posthumous award to a beloved director directing his daughter seems scrumptiously suited to the appetites of sentimental Academy members. But they passed up him and his movie and his daughter...
Armstrong, also a senior, earned the unsung hero award...
Sweeney, a senior, earned first-team honors and also copped the society's "Best Defenseman" award...
Visitation rights in the infamous "Baby M" trial were decided yesterday, and Mrs. Whitehead-Gould was definitely victorious. Her visitation rights have increased from one hour of supervised time each week, to a full day of unsupervised visitation a week. The judge's decision to award these rights to the natural mother of the child may not be unreasonable, but the hearings which led to this decision were overwhelmingly biased against career women...