Word: careers
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Following a lengthy career on the vaudeville stage, Burns went on to gain national fame as a radio star with his former dance partner, Gracie Allen...
Long a talk-show regular, Burn's career underwent a resurgence after an Oscar nomination for his role in the 1974 film, "The Sunshine Boys," and "Oh God" has become one of the most successful films of the past year...
WHEN SIR CHARLES SPENCER CHAPLIN died in Switzerland on Christmas Day, the world lost one of its most lauded and loved figures. Charlie Chaplin's long film career defined the art of cinematic comedy, yet people saw more in his movies than just calculated gags. The Little Tramp, Chaplin's most famous character, was funny, but he won the hearts of world-wide audiences with his pathos and down-at-the-heels dignity. Chaplin had a rare sense of humanity that dominated his work, and though he sought laughter with a perfectionist's intensity, it is this sensitivity that...
Chaplin's career began at the age of five on the stage of a London music hall. He traveled around Europe and America in various vaudeville troupes until, in 1913, he stopped in Hollywood, intrigued with the infant film industry. At first he played bit parts in chaotic one-reelers, but within two years he became Hollywood's leading star. In his most productive period, before the advent of talkies in 1927, he turned out such brilliant films as The Gold Rush, The Kid and The Tramp. Soon he was the most recognized celebrity in the world...
...much of its career, the world has functioned on the principle of predestined and even tragic inevitability. Most of the planet's religions are steeped in a fatalism that teaches acceptance of dira necessitas, the fearful inevitability of things. The Greeks' Moira, the Romans' fatum, the Muslims' kismet-all enforce the will of an otherworldly plan, against which it is useless to exert a defiant or creative will...