Word: onassisism
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I thought of Havel's idea when Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis died, and wondered what it is that good taste does.
But surely Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis proved something about the rules of good and bad taste as they apply to that strange and sometimes rotten religion of the late 20th century -- celebrity. It is a religion that, as she knew as well as anyone, demands human sacrifice. Somehow, she managed to...
Jacqueline Onassis was clearly a sane woman. She kept a seemly silence. And for all the fragility she may have suggested in the big, round sunglasses and the head scarf, she wore some inner armoring; she possessed an eerie talent (a strategy of self-protection well known to those who...
Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died in her New York City apartment, succumbing to cancer at 64.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was a last link to a certain kind of past, and that is part, but only part, of why she is mourned.