Word: onassisism
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"What did Mrs. Onassis say to you, kids?" eagerly asked one interested teacher as the children returned to their seats after the groundbreaking. The children said they were too cold to notice.
Or so we are told. Vonnegut's retrograde evolution is a cute idea but a literary dead end. Leon allows only a misty glimpse of the sweet by-and-by. The future is not dramatized because the elements of drama no longer exist. Instead, the narrator tells us about 1986...
Although the Garbo stand-in has a mysterious aura,(she remains faceless during the sequence), her meeting with Bancroft is anti-climatic. Bancroft, however, manages to pull it off for both of them, as her dying Estelle describes everything in her own decisively realistic terms. "I went to Paris too...
In an essay written in 1973, Author Gore Vidal sulfurously surveyed the ten novels then reclining on the New York Times bestseller list. Some of these smash hits were forgettable even then, but Vidal's remarks about them were sensible and funny enough to survive. He looked askance at...
MARRIED. Christina Onassis, 33, daughter of the late Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, over whose empire she now presides; and Thierry Roussel, 31, French businessman and heir to a pharmaceutical fortune; she for the fourth time, he for the first; in Paris.