Word: chaplin
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...shocked myself at the prices," said Carla J. Chaplin, a rental consultant for the Dewolfe's Cambridge real estate firm...
...landlord had some families living in six two-bedroom apartments for eight to nine hundred a month five years ago," Chaplin says. "Now, they're up to 1,400 and that's happening everywhere. I don't know where regular people are supposed to live anymore...
...mining towns, the scarcity of women helped bordellos flourish, but "Butte boasted of having the prettiest women of any red-light district, and it was true," Charlie Chaplin noted in his autobiography. Cops looked the other way. "It kept the miners occupied," says Ellen Baumler of the Montana Historical Society. "The women paid money that went right into city coffers"--until 1982, when a new, reform-minded sheriff closed the Dumas, the last of its kind. The mines closed a year later, and Butte was changed forever...
...wants to be a millionaire? In the song the answer was, "I don't." But that was in another country. Gone these days is the character who practically defined American heroism, epic and tragic--Huck and Holden; Charlie Chaplin, Charlie Brown. Nearly all of Hemingway's heroes are defeated in Winner Take Nothing and in the novels. In To Have and Have Not, Harry Morgan had not. The dark, antiheroes of a time as recent as the 1970s have disappeared too--De Niro in Taxi Driver, Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon. Bruce Springsteen sang about his "town full of losers...
...CHARLIE CHAPLIN Tramp's litigious estate scores coup against Israeli lottery for using image. Ah, modern times...