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Charlie Chaplin built audiences snicker, but he also designed us really feel. His films typically well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fantastic line involving sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton might not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was a minimum of as