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...fame. The film shows girls who had been reduced to jelly at a Beatles concert aggressively piling on top of the band's limousine after the show. John tries in vain to explain to a hippie who has invaded his country estate that he didn't mean for his visitor to respond to his songs in such a personal way. "I was just playing with words," he says. The scene is a chilling premonition of John's final encounter with the fan who would kill him, an event depicted in Imagine by a shot of a pair of glasses falling...
...tour adjourns to the Martin Luther King Memorial Library downtown, a large, gloomy building in the soul-crushing modernist style. Here the search for a rest room takes on a literary character, mainly Kafkaesque: a visitor finds the men's room down a darkened corridor on the third floor, just past the security cameras, but it's locked and a sign on the door says AFTER 5:30 USE MEN'S ROOM ON A-LEVEL...
...addition, there is an afternoon speakers series each year in which two HILR members and one outside visitor give lectures on a variety of subjects to supplement class work...
...spoke with boyish enthusiasm, fixing his visitor with an unhurried, brown-eyed gaze. His talk was of noble pursuits. He spoke of plans to finance employee takeovers like one last month in which his firm helped a labor union buy a Seattle tugboat-manufacturing company. Such efforts, he said, would foster a more democratic kind of capitalism...
...Quimbys know why their friend is here. Doug, 51, is slated to play a major role in a folk opera that Walter has just completed, and the two men need to run through some changes in the score. In addition to this contribution, the Quimbys offer their visitor an entree to gospel singers in the small, isolated churches of coastal Georgia. Untrained choir singers such as these will be the stars of Walter's opera...