Word: yoko
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through the holiday crush on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue last week walked a teenage girl with a stenciled poster: "How many shopping days until peace?" A few blocks away a giant billboard loomed over Times Square, bearing a Christmas message from Beatle John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono. The billboard-one of eleven put up on Los Angeles' Sunset Boulevard, London's Shaftesbury Avenue and in several European and Canadian cities-proclaimed: "The war is over ... if you want it. Happy Christmas, John and Yoko...
...producers of a pop musical about Christ called Superstar. "After all, from pictures of Christ he looked like a well-turned-out Lennon." John Lennon, that is. Sure, he'd consider playing Jesus, the Beatle was reported to have said, "but if I do it, I would want Yoko Ono to play Mary Magdalene." The Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, where they hope to stage Superstar, explained hastily that he had "nothing to do with the casting." By then, the producers were getting a little nervous too, and the offer was withdrawn. No matter...
...London, because the finished records of a new John Lennon-Yoko Ono LP album were not ready in time, review copies were sent out in the form of two test pressings, each with a recorded side and a blank side. Most reviewers recognized the dubs for what they were. But Richard Williams, critic for the pop weekly Melody Maker, was caught with his avant-garde down. After listening earnestly to each of the four sides, Williams solemnly reported that sides two and four consisted entirely of single tones, "presumably produced electronically." Their pitch, he noted, varied by microtones and "this...
...fitting that women should be protected along with Negroes by civil rights legislation, because the metaphor of Woman as Negro has been expressed by practically every observer of feminine subjugation from John Stuart Mill to Yoko Ono. As Gunnar Myrdal noted in his classic American Dilemma, both groups have been hampered by the same prejudices: that they were inferior in many ways, and also that they believed themselves to be inferior...
...Yoko was right. Girls wearing bags are not very appealing. Only their feet show, and by their feet ye shall know them. Dismayed one girl tried to raise the hem on her bag because it covered too much of her legs. Another wore sexy shoes...