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(May 04, 1992) Died:Satyajit Ray
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
May 04, 1992 Why Roe v. Wade Is Already Moot
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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MILESTONES, Page 25
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<p> DIED. Satyajit Ray, 70, evocative Indian filmmaker; of heart
disease; in Calcutta. Ray's first and most celebrated films
(Pather Panchali, Aparajito and Apur Sansar, released between
1955 and 1959) constituted a trilogy that was epic in
everything but physical scale. Ranging over almost three
decades, embracing both village and city life in modern India
as well as all the most basic human emotions, the works simply
traced the growth of their protagonist, Apu, from young
childhood to young manhood. Financed on the scrounge, shot on
weekends by an amateur cast and crew (Ray was then an
advertising art director), the trilogy brought its director
worldwide acclaim. He went on to create a superb body of work--including such films as Devi (1960), Charulata (1964) and
Distant Thunder (1973)--that eloquently portrayed a society
devastated first by colonial oppression, then by postcolonial
cultural confusions. From his hospital bed in Calcutta, Ray last
month accepted an Academy Award for lifetime achievement.
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