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The University Daily Kansan
Monday, December 4, 2000
Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet
Widow still reflective on Lennon's legacy
By Larry McShane The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Sitting inside her office at the Dakota apartments, a stone's throw from the spot where her husband was mortally wounded two decades earlier, Yoko Ono considers one thing:
Imagine John Lennon at 60.
"I think he was always innovative," she said. "I think he would have jumped into the Internet. Also, his music was very funky and punky — the rap kind of thing."
There's a short pause, and her voice grows lively.
Ono supervised re-releases of the first and last solo albums of his life, Plastic Ono Band and Double Fantasy. There was even a book from Lennon about Lennon: a 151-page pressing of his revealing 1970 interviews with Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner.
Lennon, during his 1970 interview with Wenner, was asked to conjure his vision of the Liverpool pool at age 64. It included Yoko, and made no mention of Paul, George or Ringo. He was far from the craziness of Manhattan.
"You can almost see that John would have done that," she continues. "I'm sure he would have been the first white rapper. Or the second, maybe."
It's pure speculation 20 years after Mark David Chapman, a demented Beatlemaniac, killed Lennon with five gunshotts on Dec. 8, 1980. It's also something that Ono, who watched in horror as her dying husband collapsed, lives with every day.
"I hope we're a nice old couple living off the coast of Ireland or something like that," he offered. "Looking back at our scrapbooks of madness."
A compilation of the Beatles' 27 No.1 hits, released in time for Christmas shopers, landed atop the Billboard chart after selling nearly 600,000 copies in its first week.
"I miss the laughter, you know?" the 67-year-old widow reflects. "He made me laugh, especially at times when things were very difficult."
This year, when Lennon would have turned 60, his work was ubiquitous. Nine Beatles-related books were introduced in the year 2000 — from the authorized The Beatles Anthology, to a reissue of Lennon's verse In His Own Write, to a tome on the Beatles' dalliance with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Crossword
ACROSS
1 Plus feature
2 Heat home?
3Actor Holbrook
4British PM (1970-
74)
5Of a city
6Every last one
7Artist Degas
8David Tolma and "Losee"
9Cow's call
10Immotional
12Theft
14Plaines, IL
15Unwanted plant
17Duped
18Bad name
19Greek capital
20PW possibly
21Ready, willing and
28Chick calls
29Full harpiece
30While broadcasting
31Poi base
32Label
34Actor Keaton
35Subtle amount
37Equal amount
39Comic Carey
41Ms. Gardner
44Composer Hecto
45Flowering shrubs
48Appendage
49Powerful chess
piece
61Downpours
62Sell-out letters
63Michelin 180
64Monochrous monologue
65Cured pork
66English assignment
67Predatory seabirds
DOWN
DOWN
1 In front
2 Marsh grass
3 Wise ones
4 Lat. list-ender
5 Soccer sideline
plays
6 One who makes
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faces
7 Wrath
8 Son of Adam
9 Nenoguaçu's capital
10 Doing the same old same old
11 Veronica of "Hill Street Blues"
12 Isolated
13 Actor Bridges
14 Scottish loch
15 Interior deity
16 Quoting from office
17 Hog
18 Fitting
19 Hyson or peekeo
20 That girl
21 Homer hitter?
22 False story
23 Slip up
24 Conflict
25 Away from the center
26 Qualifying tests
27 Woodstock
Solutions to Friday's crossword
performer Joeri
J45 One and only
M46 Mommy's
mommy
M47 support
M48 Missionary
Junipero
49 T. Garr movie
Vowels
Setter-lady White
Olympus boss
55 Olympus boss
57 Common songbord
57 Period of note
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