Word: onassisism
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At first Pattakos refused to negotiate with what he called "air pirates-blackmailers who, under the pretext of patriotism, violate international law." For nearly eight hours Arab ambassadors, Red Cross officials and even Aristotle Onassis, owner of Olympic Airways, argued and pleaded with the adamant hijackers. At one point Onassis...
A bore may earn his title for reasons other than his innately yawn-provoking characteristics. Whatever Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis is like as a private person is irrelevant; as a public personage she has become for many people a colossal bore. Jackie with hemline up. Jackie with hemline down. Jackie...
*Nina Auchincloss Steers is the stepsister of Jacqueline Onassis and Lee Radziwill. She is also Vidal's half sister.
Stravinsky has never found himself paralyzed by reticence, or embarrassed by garrulity. There is a brisk riot of social opinions, delivered with varying degrees of mockery. He censures the "military version of Manifest Destiny," the "victims of peace scares [stock-market investors]," the punitive assault on drug usage, calls for...
Died. Eugenia Niarchos, 44, third wife of Stavros Niarchos, Greek shipping baron and archrival of Aristotle Onassis; of an overdose of barbiturates; on her husband's privately owned islet of Spetsopoula, 56 miles southwest of Athens. In a game of musical marital chairs, Stavros divorced Eugenia in 1965 to...