Word: lennon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first day of competition, the Crimson stood in second place behind the fully manned Yale squad, but only one Crimson competitor, "C" division player Paul Lennon, had been eliminated. All the remaining players advanced to the quarter-finals...
...aftermath of John Lennon's murder last December, plenty of people rushed forward to make a quick buck off the Beatles. Author Philip Norman is not among them. His work on this biography dates back to 1968, when he began reporting on the group and their financial empire for the London Sunday Times. After years of research and writing, his project was nearly finished when Lennon was killed. Norman added a sad prologue to his manuscript: "The vigil was for John; the farewell was to all the Beatles...
Most important, though, was talent. The Beatles became legends before their own time. Once they grew too famous to perform safely or even audibly in public concerts, they retreated to the recording studio and proved themselves artists. Norman re-creates the excitement of these sessions, when the imaginations of Lennon and McCartney met electronic technology; for a few years, the sounds that emerged from a studio on London's Abbey Road dazzled intellectuals, teeny-boppers and nearly everyone in between. At the same time, the end was nearing. Epstein was dead, an apparent suicide; the Beatles were quarreling...
...groups is a fledgling lobby called Handgun Control Inc., which was founded by former Du Pont Executive Nelson Shields III after his 23-year-old son became a victim of San Francisco's "Zebra" killings in 1974. In the wake of the murders last December of Musician John Lennon and Author-Cardiologist Michael Halberstam,* membership jumped from 90,000 to 130,000. Sacks of mail, including donations, were arriving last week at the organization's Washington headquarters in response to ads taken out after the Reagan shooting. Handgun Control Inc. now has its own political action committee...
After King. After Kennedy. After Wallace. After Lennon. After Reagan. After ... the nation will be left twitching and flinching as before to the pops of its 55 million pistols and the highest rate of murder by guns in the world...