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"  Imagine this: John Lennon would have been turning seventy years old on Saturday, were he not tragically taken away from us thirty years ago this December. And John Lennon would have been doing something relevant \u2014 sublimely so \u2014 and something stylish, without a shadow of a doubt. Trying to discuss his relevance, his stylishness, his timelessness \u2014 it&amp;#039;s like trying to describe color to a man born blind: difficult, but we have an idea how. His music, his sunglasses, his message \u2014 iconic all, transcendent still. If there&amp;#039;s anything Tea Partiers, oligarchs, socialists, and fashion designers can all still agree upon, it&amp;#039;s that when &amp;quot;Imagine&amp;quot; starts playing, you stop and listen. Sure, Lennon had his unapologetic political stances and even more unapologetic flowing garb, but it all tapped into what we were looking for then and what we&amp;#039;re probably looking for now, from Sean Hannity to Sean Combs and Sean Parker to Sean the paper boy: some connection, to something bigger. Not to get all granola or anything, but it&amp;#039;s kind of a granola celebration this weekend, and our celebrity- and rage-filled country could use a message like this, thirty years on. Because sometimes simpler is better. Sometimes love and understanding are more important than anything. Even a nice pair of shades. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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