The reason was to allow the newer backspaceable Teletypes and their code-compatible derivatives to represent the international character sets more readily.

Director Steven Soderbergh's Traffic was more typical Oscar bait, but the high-minded three-hour film about the drug trade along the US/ Mexican border was also inconsistent, and Soderbergh's fondness for mixing in grainy film stock and jerky handheld cameras didn't figure to endear him to older Academy voters.

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The body in a blue and white striped one piece and I'm about to drop my shorts to my multi-coloured Christmas-present dick togs.