Word: yoko
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...starring as Botticelli's Venus on a half-shell and Luciano Pavarotti singing Puccini's Nessun Dorma. A Ferrari roared on stage; speakers blared the theme from Rocky (Stallone! The Italian Stallion!); and suddenly, after a magnificent dove formation by acrobats on gossamer thread, there was a poetry-spouting Yoko Ono (who knew she was Italian?). The only thing missing was Torino's famous shroud, said to have covered Jesus. The Olympics are about the pride of the host country, but the Games also bring in worldly anxieties. Danish athletes reportedly received special protection because of the global swirl...
...handling of the 2002 games, made himself prominent, perhaps with an eye on a presidential race.? The First Lady Laura Bush, who headed the U.S. delegation, was in a skybox near British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife, Cherie, who objected to having news photographers take her picture. ?Yoko Ono and Peter Gabriel also appeared, and paid tribute to her husband John Lennon?s "Imagine." Twenty-eight white-clothed acrobats climbed polls on a massive structure and briefly formed an astonishing dove of peace. The crowd joined reticently and sporadically into "YMCA," but perked up to "Jump...
...BALLAD OF JARED AND YOKO...
Frankly, we wouldn't want that guy lurking around our house either. YOKO ONO is raising a protest about Chapter 27, a movie starring JARED LETO as John Lennon's assassin, Mark David Chapman. The Beatle's widow checked to see if she could prevent filming of the façade of the Dakota in New York City, the spot where Lennon was shot and where she still lives, but filmmakers obtained the necessary city permits and started work there last week. "She thinks the whole concept is terrible and offensive," says an Ono spokesman. "The filmmakers are fulfilling an assassin...
...This can give rise to the stridency of Voodoo Child, which recalls the madwoman wailings of Yoko Ono (Lim's teenage heroine), but at its best her music communes powerfully with another realm. Commissioned by France's Ensemble Intercontemporain in 2001, Machine for Contacting the Dead was performed as part of a Paris museum show centering on the 2,500-year-old tomb of the Chinese Marquis Yi of Zeng. Among the objects excavated at his tomb in central Hubei province were 65 bronze bells as well as a courtly orchestra of drums, mouth organs and flutes...