And then, as she entered her 70s, Ms. Ono made friends with young fashion types who regarded her not as the woman who broke up the Beatles, but as an elder stateswoman of cool; a reminder of what New York used to be before it was taken over by hedge fund types.
Two mavericks are coming to Washington, and we're going to shake things up!" And most notable are the dizzying cascade of attacks on Mr. Obama, who seems to have come to consume Mr. McCain as the weather turns cool, a reminder that this long election cycle is approaching its end.
But it serves as a cool-headed reminder: no matter how technologically advanced commercial air travel becomes, soaring miles into the sky and gliding over vast oceans will always entail an infinitesimal degree of risk.
On the wall of an arcade where the two youths spend much of their time hangs a huge poster of James Dean, a towering symbol of cool and a reminder of how much more exciting life is on the big screen.
They are unlikely, alas, to join the 21 Irishmen still at newly cool Arlington House, reminders of a bygone age.
Street fountains, some of which still provide good, cool drinking water, are reminders of Roman hydraulic engineering and Roman social life.
Those who know the effortless ways she channeled cool will quietly post reminders of the Tommy Hilfiger shoots she styled for his now defunct label Tommy; a shoot that made Hilfiger the de facto brand of cool associated with everything hip, youthful and black.
