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Christianity in Turkey may indeed be at its darkest hour, but the whole of Eastern Orthodoxy, with all of its diverse ethnic membership, will live on as it has for the past 1,900 years...
...Manhattan. Cazale found his widest success as Fredo, the slow, shy, forever startled, finally traitorous older brother in Francis Coppola's Godfather films. Other parts-notably as Al Pacino's out-of-tune partner in Dog Day Afternoon-confirmed Cazale's gift for searching out the darkest shadows in a role, then rendering them with shades of wit and unswerving compassion...
...would have laughed his head off," insisted one friend of the "Little Tramp's" family. But in truth, just about everyone in the Swiss village of Corsier-sur-Vevey thought that the kidnaping was the darkest of black humor at best. One day last week a gravedigger discovered that the plot in which Charlie Chaplin was buried had been ravaged. Authorities flashed an Interpol alert for "unknown persons wanted for the unlawful removal of the mortal remains of Charles Chaplin," who died last Christmas...
...sophomore year. The Great Depression had struck, and his father needed him to help at the drugstore. For six years Hubert dispensed prescriptions and vaccinated hogs. Hard times confirmed him in the fundamentalist liberal faith from which he would rarely deviate in the years ahead. But even the darkest periods were usually sunny for Hubert. He met a hometown girl, Muriel Buck, at a dance, and she began eating lunch at the Humphrey drugstore. The pair were married and eventually had four children. Always quietly supportive, Muriel gamely campaigned for her husband, but she did not share his round...
Charles Spencer Chaplin had risen from the darkest of London slums. His father was an alcoholic; his mother sewed blouses for 1½ pence each. Charlie's great character was a memory of that Dickensian experience, a waif in the tradition of Oliver Twist and David Copperfield. Comedy derives from the Greek kōmos, a dance. And indeed, as The Tramp capered about with his unique sleight of foot, he created a choreography of the human condition. In classics like Modern Times, The Gold Rush, The Great Dictator, objects spoke out as never before: bread rolls became ballet...