Word: bengalis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World of Apu (Edward Harrison) completes, in alternations of suffering and joy, one of the most vital and abundant movies ever made. Based on a bestselling Bengali novel by Bibhuti Bannerji, the picture was written, produced and directed as three separate pictures by a 39-year-old Calcutta film buff named Satyajit Ray (pronounced Sawt-yaw-jit Rye). Each of the three lasts about an hour and 45 minutes and stands as a separate and complete cinema experience in its own right. But the moviemaker intended his trilogy ultimately to be seen and judged as a single immense discursive epic...
...marked their ballots in curtained privacy, dropped them in padlocked steel ballot boxes; after tally clerks had tabulated the results, fleet couriers hopped on horse or camel, or jumped into autos or motorboats, to hurry to the nearest telegraph office. Many Pakistan electors decorated their ballots with Urdu or Bengali verses in praise of Sandhurst-trained Field Marshal Ayub, attached bills and checks payable to Ayub's favorite uplift projects, or simply wrote: "I love Ayub." So little suspense was involved that Karachi's leading daily, Dawn, published full details on President Ayub's plans...