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...everyone else's expectations. He did not invent rock 'n' roll, but he forged it and focused it, and he was the first great rock superstar. He haunted his contemporaries, like Jerry Lee Lewis, who once showed up outside Graceland waving a pistol and demanding an audience. John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, John Fogerty -- all dreamed of him and were daunted not only by his gift but by his destiny. He was the rocker they yearned to be and feared becoming...
...have returned my Nikes to the company with this message: "Take back your shoes. Give back John Lennon's music...
...John Lennon was using reflexive radicalism to have a little sport when he wrote this song in 1968. He wasn't promoting revolution at the time -- or sportswear at any time. Photographed on jumpy, grainy black-and-white tinted Super 8, edited to look at first like some family-heirloom home movie but in fact adeptly synced to the hard rhythms of the song, the Nike spot rousingly shows several pros (including John McEnroe and Michael Jordan) and lots of gleeful amateurs working themselves into sweaty transports of athletic fulfillment. "We tried to make a kind of radical sports documentary...
...reception Gorbachev shook hands with Yoko Ono and praised the contributions she and her late husband John Lennon had made to the peace movement. Mailer quipped that he had "cemented a peace pact" over dinner with Novelist Gore Vidal, with whom he has frequently feuded. Ustinov complained that a reporter from Radio Luxembourg woke him at 2 a.m. to ask what Gorbachev was going to say in a speech later that day. Everyone feasted on mounds of fresh strawberries -- a delicacy virtually unheard of in midwinter Moscow...
...rate of descent into this wretched condition picked up noticeably some 20 years ago here in America. Around that time, hedonists and idealists converged as flower children and whined about giving peace a chance. When John Lennon imagined a world in which there was "nothing to kill or die for, no religion too," etc., this descent was, as modern political scientists say, "institutionalized...