Word: pother
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...Pother Panchali. Satyajit Ray, in his first picture, has made a film poem of Indian life; the year's most richly and sensitively imagined work of cinematic art (TIME...
...Pother Panchali (Edward Harrison). One day in 1952, a 31-year-old commercial artist in Calcutta went down to the pawnshop with his wife's jewels. Then he rented an ancient Wall camera, and on the first fine Sunday after that, he rounded up a few actor friends, piled them into a taxi, and headed upcountry to a picturesque village he knew. There and thereabouts, heedless of the fact that he had never shot a foot of film in his life, Satyajit Ray (pronounced Sawt-yaw-jit Rye) plugged away at his movie project whenever...
There were signs last week that the pother about U.S. schools was no longer exclusively the jousting ground of editors and educationists. In two cities parents and property holders were making up their own minds...
...sale to the novelist who lands it. To literary onlookers, the Femina's entertainment value is even greater; although the prize was created (in 1904) to bring literary women closer together, the hatpin-tongued old fates who hand it out feud continually, and in a good season their pother can all but drown out the crash of a falling French Cabinet...
...butt of malmsey wine. And while he waits for the aging king (Hardwicke) to die "and leave the world for me to bustle in," the "bottled spider" can teasingly tongue-tie the opposing faction ("Cannot a plain man live?") and make a lot of pious tut and pother ("I thank my God for my humility") at the deathbed of the king...