Word: stinkers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year's nominations were altogether perverse. Although legends of ballot-stuffing are legion, usually the good ladies and gentlemen of the Academy pick the films they feel are good for the industry image. How anyone could back an out-and-out stinker like Nicholas and Alexandra while there were greater moneymakers of far greater quality in the offing--Sunday. Bloody Sunday, McCabe and Mrs. Miller. Little Murders. Straw Dogs--is beyond the understanding of rational man. (Especially as Nick and Alex was produced independently...
Under the previous ruling, a tie in the election of a team captain was broken by the manager. "It was a real onus on the manager. Someone was certain to see him as a stinker," Cutler said...