Word: raying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directed and Written by SATYAJIT RAY...
...Satyajit Ray's superb and achingly simple Distant Thunder concerns the famine in Bengal in 1943. It is a matter of record: 5 million people died. Numbers as huge as this can be dangerous. A tragedy of such magnitude becomes an event abstracted by arithmetic. But Ray's artistry alters the scale. His concentrating on just a few victims of the famine causes such massive loss to become real, immediate. Ray makes numbers count...
...pitcher named Luis Tiant. The Cuban righthander, who claims to be 34 but is widely believed to be older, had won 76 games for Boston since it reclaimed him in 1971 from the minor leagues, where he had been abandoned as a washed-up fireballer. Cincinnati Scout Ray Shore warned his fellow Reds before the Series began: "There isn't anybody in our league or any other league who pitches like Tiant...
...ensuring a full-scale invasion of Cuba. The authors trace the Oswald double to a para-military band of right-wing Cubans. Most interestingly, the face of the Oswald tramp closely matches the drawing of Martin Luther King's assassin released by the FBI before they found James Earl Ray. Ray himself claims he was a pasty for a Cuban named Raoul...
...medium of print into that of film presents problems: How do you capture wild visions and put them on the screen? There have been a few successful creative unions: Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Kubrick again in Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange, and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, but the list remains short...