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...last, Chaplin, who died at 88 on Christmas Day at his home in Vevey, Switzerland, produced simply himself. But that self was not so simple. It was first introduced to America as a vaudeville clown in 1910, and the country did not respond warmly. Charlie's comic flare failed to ignite enthusiasm until the epochal one-reeler in which he tried on Fatty Arbuckle's pants and Chester Conklin's jacket. In that moment The Tramp was born, and with him a long parabola of triumph and humiliation. The arc described a career bred of deprivation...
...reducing the violence in pro basketball. Among the possible rule changes: penalties, similar to those in hockey, that remove a player for specified times; the use of a third referee to help sort out infractions that occur in the confined area under the basket, where elbows fly and tempers flare. The people who usually lurk beneath the hoop are heavyweights; most N.B.A. centers tower near the 7 ft. mark, and power forwards average more than...
...attack over Texas; running out of fuel in a fog near Chicago when no one told him that his 120-gal. gasoline tank had been replaced with an 80-gal. tank; losing sight of the ground in a storm in those preradio years and finding his only field-illuminating flare had failed. He wrote that he had accepted his job as chief pilot on the St. Louis-Chicago mail route "with the understanding that each pilot be furnished with a new seat-type silk parachute and that no criticism be made if the parachutes were used...
Rather than constructing complete flying saucers, with aluminum skin and Plexiglas bubble tops, Trumbull built about two dozen in different shapes with remote-controlled lights inside. The lights were then aimed at the camera lens, creating the optical effect known as lens flare. Says he: "We used that technique in order to have those UFO objects pass over, through or around whatever the human action was in the scene. You never really distinctly see anything except in a few very brief cuts...
...farmer's wife tossed a little do in her Middleburg, Va., backyard-and charged $35 a couple admission. And why not? Hostess Elizabeth Taylor Warner was sponsoring a political fund raiser for Republican Gubernatorial Candidate John Dalton. Because of a painful flare-up of bursitis, Liz, clad in blue jeans and red silk slippers, hobbled about on a cane. Before giving a brief welcoming speech, she impulsively went for a helicopter ride with Husband John Warner and the Daltons, sweeping low over her 160-year-old farmhouse and 2,000 acres of pasture land. "Being in a helicopter...