Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...daughter of an immigrant Greek druggist in New York, a fat ugly duckling with myopic eyes, who turned to singing to forget the feeling of being unwanted in a broken home. He was a middle-aged Italian building-materials tycoon. Under his loving care, the fat duckling slimmed herself from 213 Ibs. into a glamorous creature, and became the most fabulously acclaimed opera singer of her time. The tokens of their happiness accumulated: a villa at Sirmione, two palaces in Verona, numerous art objects, jewelry, autos, motorboats and joint bank accounts. Their love, it seemed, thrived on money, and money...
...crisis came on the sleek, white, 322-ft. yacht of Greek Shipping Tycoon Aristotle Onassis, 53. Onassis, too, was a man who knew the value of money. Starting as a night telephone operator in Buenos Aires, he had taken shrewd advantage of a wave of deflation to build one of the world's largest tanker fleets and accumulate a fortune of about $300 million. Love brought him more money in the shape of Athina (Tina) Livanos, beautiful daughter of Millionaire Shipping Czar Stavros Livanos and sister-in-law of Millionaire Shipping Czar Stavros Niarchos. The glow of the Onassis...
...scene is a sun-drenched Aegean island. The central character is a blonde, green-eyed girl, found as a baby by a drink-fuddled Greek fisherman and grown into a woman who has the local boys dreaming. By most fictional standards, this should be the cutoff point, the end of any sensible man's interest in a novel called The Mermaid Madonna. No one should make that mistake. Author Stratis Myrivilis is probably the finest of living Greek writers. The Mermaid Madonna is the first of his books to come to the U.S., and even with its liberal dash...
...early August, Bernstein and the Philharmonic so moved the audience with Mozart's G-Major Piano Concerto that it had to play three encores, and a halt had to be called after Lenny explained: "We are very tired from a long plane flight." As he shuffled offstage, a Greek woman shouted: "A new god has come to Athens." Two days later, in Lebanon, the music chairman of the Baalbek Festival said: "I want to cry. Everything now will be anticlimactic...
Last Train from Gun Hill. Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn fight it out in a western shot full of sociology, child psychology and Greek tragedy, while Caroline Jones makes the best of it all as the funny, freaky heroine...