Word: yoko
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Duffy, who edited this week's cover stories on Lennon's tragic death and rich musical legacy, first met him in 1969. Duffy was in Toronto interviewing Novelist Jacqueline Susann, who was there to promote her book The Love Machine. When Susann found out that Lennon and Yoko Ono were staging their memorable "Lie-in for Peace" in her hotel, she insisted on paying her respects. Recalls Duffy: "I was surprised that they were so friendly and welcoming. John was very gentle but not in a soft way. He had a strong sense of himself...
...that night, or the next day, but a little later, after the terror ebbed and the grief could be managed, Lennon's wife, Yoko Ono, took their five-year-old son Sean to the spot in the apartment courtyard where she had seen his father murdered. She had already shown Sean a newspaper with his father's picture on the front page. She tried to do what everyone else has done since that Monday night. She tried to explain...
Ringo Starr flew to New York to see Yoko. George Harrison, "shattered and stunned," went into retreat at his home in Oxfordshire, England. Paul McCartney, whom Lennon plainly loved and just as plainly hated like the brother he never had, said, "I can't tell you how much it hurts to lose him. His death is a bitter, cruel blow-I really loved...
...Hogrefe, assistant district attorney, said yesterday that Chapman was carrying $2000 when police arrested him Monday night outside the Dakota apartment building where Lennon lived with his wife, Yoko Ono, and their five-year...
...news at NBC last week, for so long the also-ran in the networks' ratings race. NBC hit paydirt with the five-night, twelve-hour, $25 million production of James Clavell's bestselling novel Shōgun, set in 17th century Japan and starring Richard Chamberlain and Yoko Shimada. Despite long doses of uncaptioned Japanese dialogue, Shōgun's mix of arch politics, discreet sex and graphic beheadings started big on Monday night with 70 million watching, and was still going strong at week's end as newspapers alertly provided daily plot summaries. The total...