Word: raying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CITY. Out of the disarmingly simple story of a Calcutta housewife forced to seek employment and the effect this has on her and her family, Indian Director Satyajit Ray has fashioned a quietly superlative epic...
...made radiation (now equal to half the total of natural radiation) adds up to 55 mR* annually for every American, said Dr. Morgan, and 90% of this comes from diagnostic X rays. At Oak Ridge, where nuclear physicists are so conscious of radiation hazards that they have done everything conceivable to reduce them, the skin exposure from a chest X ray is 10 mR. This low and relatively safe dose can be matched in any well-equipped, properly run X-ray department and it is achieved by qualified personnel in many of the better hospitals. But, said Dr. Morgan...
Later, skin cancer may develop at this site, said Dr. Morgan. Hidden from view are internal cancers (especially of the thyroid), which may take many years to develop, and leukemia or "cancer of the blood." If a woman has a pelvic X ray in the first weeks of pregnancy, the fetus may be damaged, to be aborted or stillborn, or the child may eventually develop leukemia. Completely hidden from diagnosis or measurement are genetic effects, which do not appear until a later generation...
...Ray fuses sight and sound into a single artistic unity. His people speak in a curious linguistic melange, basically Bengali but liberally daubed with English stock phrases. His musical background, which he himself composed, is a similar fluid mixture in which a line of Oriental melody moves imperceptibly toward a Western cadence...
...Ray's camera seeks...