Word: onassisism
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"Jackie Onassis. Jackie Onassis," mused Columnist Herb Caen in the San Francisco Chronicle. "It sounds funny, but we got used to Senator George Murphy and Governor Ronald Reagan." For a week now, the former Jacqueline Kennedy had been Mrs. Aristotle Onassis, and the world and Herb Caen were beginning to...
At a party celebrating the 75th anniversary of Maxim's in Paris, Diva Maria Callas was reported to have remarked: "She did well, Jacqueline, to give a grandfather to her children." A Boston matron icily charged that "Jackie has made the Gabor sisters look like ladies." A few commentators...
Aristotle Onassis, who is vain about his public image, came in for a great deal of vitriol. But Hughes Rudd, commenting on CBS News' 60 Minutes, defended him. "The question of his being a Greek had nothing to do with it at all, of course: Prince Philip is actually...
Of course, he is even richer than he is considerate. Some observers suggested, neither unkindly nor jokingly, that even a woman as comfortably fixed as Jackie Kennedy might more easily continue to live in her accustomed style as the wife of one of the world's richest men. Though...
The ceremony that joined the pair was almost self-consciously modest. Rain, considered a blessing by the Greeks, had descended like a grey benediction across the Onassis-owned island of Skorpios. In the tiny chapel, Jackie stood quietly-almost in a daze-in her beige chiffon-and-lace dress, Ari...