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...there was the venerable tree, which, as the year progressed, achieved "friend" status for me and my roommate, Sonya. Not only did the tree provide shade for daydreaming and procrastinating, it also became the final resting place of Sonya's pepper plant. Her miniature plant had attempted suicide not once, but twice by leaping from our window sill...
...since the Beatles, the biggest pop phenomenon ever, broke up. Yet even now the baby-faced member of the quartet who sent girls into spasms of screaming ecstasy on The Ed Sullivan Show back in 1964 is still "the cute one." His stylishly long hair has gone salt-and-pepper. When he smiles, crinkles arc downward from his hazel eyes. He wears loose vests even though there doesn't seem to be any pudge to hide. Otherwise, there's nothing flashy about him: just a pair of old Timberlands on his feet, a wedding ring with a tiny jade heart...
...forever pestering him with questions about the Walrus, Rita the meter maid, Desmond and Molly, and, of course, the secret message on Revolution 9. But McCartney refuses to overanalyze the Beatles' songs. "They're just songs," he says. "We never had a theme on a Beatles album, even Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. We kinda knew we were reflecting the times, but if you had asked me then, I would've said the songs just sort of fell...
...still remember exactly who was in theroom the first time I heard Sergeant Pepper's,"says Atkinson, referring to the 1968 Beatles'album. "I thought: `This is amazing...
...that it [the stand] will force us out of business or anything," Weiner said looking over his tortoise-shelled bifocals and salt and pepper beard. "It's that he'll be able to undercut us because he has no overhead or rent--we will suffer some losses...