Word: raye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ray dissects this slice of Indian life, he works outward from individual characters toward general truths. His young couple are well enough educated to cope with the city's mechanized realities, yet bound to an ancient morality. The husband (Anil Chatterjee) can accept the fact of his wife's working, but not the lipstick she must use on the job. The wife (Madhabi Mukherjee) looks with childlike eagerness upon her newly won status, but goes to pieces before the in-laws' condemnation...
...City. The harrowing beauty of Satyajit Ray's film making is not easy to analyze. It is a quality both evanescent and palpable, as if the Indian director had found a way to take the lens off his camera and allow life itself to touch the raw film. Whether or not Ray's latest film to reach the U.S. is his masterpiece is beside the point; each of his works is a version of perfection...
...this disarmingly simple tale, Ray has fashioned a superlative quiet epic, an eloquent testimonial to the innate courage of ordinary people facing ordinary problems. But his film is about more than its story. Without once forcing a point or losing faith in the viewer's ability to think for himself, he offers a fascinating study of a complex, shifting society, the urban Indian middle class caught in the clash of native tradition and the lingering relics of the British...
...Reasons range from the competing tourist attraction of the hippie haunts in Haight-Ashbury to the high cost of drinks (usually $1.50) at the topless bars. But the chief cause may be simple overexposure. "When you've seen two," said a wag, "you've seen them all." Ray Goman of San Francisco's Gay 60's, who expects the fad to fade out by next summer, notes that his male employees trip over topless dancers every night of the week without batting an eye, but still swivel their heads sharply when a pretty girl walks...
...nonusers. Six of the acidheads showed a marked increase in chromosomal breaks. Two who had tak en massive doses showed a small, deformed chromosome, characteristic of a type of chronic leukemia that attacks adults. The only nonuser of LSD whose cells showed many abnormalities had previously had heavy X-ray treatments...