Word: yoke
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...published a ghoulish Page One picture of Lennon taken at the city morgue after his death, dubbing the shot "historic." The National Enquirer printed the photo in color. Us magazine raised its newsstand price to $2.50 from 75? for a special Lennon edition, with an "exclusive" of "John and Yoke's last photo session." It was not; the last was Rolling Stone's, conducted hours before the shooting. A startling picture from that session, showing a nude Lennon embracing a fully clothed Yoko, was used as the cover of Rolling Stone's 1.8 million-copy Lennon memorial...
Thankfully (at times regretfully) Godard's cast does not seem to bridle at his yoke as much as we do. Huppert plays Isabelle, a relaxed if busy prostitute, capable enough to teach the trade to her sister-for money. She picks out Paul Godard (the mocking association is reinforced by his mogulstatus at a television station) and coaxes him away from a cinema line...
...edge of the lake as only loons can, quiet and watchful, cautious, craning their necks and rolling their eyes at the merest hint of danger. Joe ignores the loons, they will die or disappear and he will live. He will go on the road, bear the blue yoke of America's heartland, deceive and be deceived, lose everything he has and keep everything he wants...
...across the country, from the canyons of Manhattan to the chic watering holes of Beverly Hills and, of course, the salons of the Southwest, it is Lone Ranger and Tonto time. City dudes are sporting wide-brimmed cowpoke sombreros (often with Indian accents of feathers and turquoise-inlaid headbands), yoke shirts, off-the-range Levi's, brass- or gold-buckled belts and high-steppin' boots of alligator or snakeskin. Some real rootin' tooters tote leather holsters (empty) and cartridge belts. The lady on the Marlboro man's arm is apt to resemble Pocahontas, in a fringed...
...only that, it would have "preserved the freedom of the...millions who are suffering now under the yoke of the tyrannies that masquerade as people's democracies...