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Unlike many of his reclusive peers in that small realm of the super-super-rich, Onassis knew how to spend as lavishly as he earned. Known around the world as "Ari" or "Daddy-O" (his Greek friends, however, called him "Telis," the diminutive of Aristotle), he was the prime mover of the jet set. He had residences in half a dozen cities, an Ionian island of his own and an elegant art collection. He boasted the world's most lavish yacht, the Christina, a 325-ft. rebuilt Canadian frigate complete with sumptuous bathrooms lined in Siena marble and fitted...
Kawabata's story takes place in that ethereal realm that lies between abstraction and reality Both Otoko and Keiko are painters living through and for their art Otoko plans a painting called Ascension of an Infant as a redemptive memorial to her head baby...
...gaunt, curt woman swathed in ascetic white and attended by two lackeys in surgeon's coats; they pull on rubber gloves before extracting Eurydice's soul. This woman exists in something like a different space and time warp from that of living beings, and she shifts out of her realm's "wavelength of seven and range of seven to twelve" electronically...
...done with mirrors." Cocteau's French text has her say that the feat has "nothing to do with a machine." Machines, in this case, suggest the surreal aspects of the play more directly, anticipating the striking automatism of Death. Machines convey more than a link to the inhuman realm of the mirror; they also elaborate on the idea that the contemporary world has tried to preserve some fascination and belief in the supernatural by turning to technological miracles...
...said, "While individuals like [President] Bok might have condemned the racist violence around the South, when it's in Boston they say it's outside their realm of responsibility...