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The hereditary peers, nearly all of them conservatives, did not argue with the case for their own abolition, but repeatedly pointed out that a nonelected chamber consisting exclusively of government nominees would be even less democratic than one dominated by people who had arrived there by accident of birth.
(MSNBC lists all the nominees.)
Other nominees: Sandstorm, Seraph, Scylla ("Fends off sailors," a reader points out).
"This year's nominees," wrote one newspaper critic recently, after noting that a single big-studio movie was in the running for an Oscar for best picture, "represent a triumph of independent films over Hollywood product."
I wish I had kept my list of nominees.