To answer the question, yes. It's a sensationalistic angle for someone to pick the Kennedy bones, but woeful and placing way to much weight on rumor.
Despite her tabloid fame (and secret enjoyment of it), sex seems to be the last thing ever on Jackie's mind. If she drew close to Bobby, it was because the entire nation demanded family continuity with the Kennedys. She'd had a pretty tenuous and mercenary connection with the family to begin with. While I believe Jackie did grow fond of JFK after many bumps in the road, Jackie exulted in being First Lady.
I disbelieve rumors of an affair with RFK sheerly because he was such an unattractive wee bantam of a man. He wasn't Jackie's type at all. But after JFK's murder, I can see them drawing close- but as family. It must be the most underrated and underexplored trope of life and literature, the (non-sexual) bond that a man can have with his brother's wife. And heightened to the extent of the Kennedy dramas of those years- well yes, I can see a bond forming. They'd already been through a lot together, Bobby and Jackie were canny allies. They weren't fools. They probably talked and coordinated the aftermath of JFK's hundreds of infidelities.
I think they had a bond there, they were friends. Imagining a romance in a tabloid way, - well people will do that. But Bobby was such a boring grind, Jackie eager to flee to her new life- I don't think it's likely. They had deep and fond affection for each other, as inlaws can. And when Bobby was killed, Jackie fled to Onassis for protection. She realized what a dangerous family she was linked to. What a sick deja vĂ¹ Bobby's murder must have been.
@Baroness: Whatever, lady! I want to believe in Bobby awkwardly fingering Jackie by the pool. I've already commissioned a painting of it -- it better be true or this painting will be silly!
"Pretty soon he was taking up to 16 hits (of LSD) a day. One day the cops were after him so he gobbled all of the 48 tabs in his pocket. It took him a year to recover, he said. Lost his speech. Had trouble walking. It was during this time that he reasoned he should get into weight training and nutrition."
Yeah, or just stop scorching your brain with tons of acid every day. Jesus fucking Ca-hrist.
I saw this guy on the subway yesterday. Total urban attention seeker. Even though there were seats he was standing, ostentatiously, in the middle of the car with a flimsy shirt on. Roccoco.
Because he doesn't need to be "the shit" -- he simply is the way he is, and he lives here because New York is still home for those who probably belong no where else in America. And the floods of dickheads who come here to act out in public because they go to art school or whatever (before they move back to Omaha to be "the shit") cannot begin to equal his casual, odd, majesty.
Is it wrong that I became slightly flushed and warm as I read that last sentence? Because he's not my type at all, but really, there's one's type and there's one's TYPE.
@OMG! Ponies!: To be fair, I'm stranded in Kansas, so I think He-Man is safe, but I have seen a lot of his kind, albeit clothed, in small-town taverns. Sometimes I think Kansas is the only place in the world where the mullet is still the latest thing.
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Despite her tabloid fame (and secret enjoyment of it), sex seems to be the last thing ever on Jackie's mind. If she drew close to Bobby, it was because the entire nation demanded family continuity with the Kennedys. She'd had a pretty tenuous and mercenary connection with the family to begin with. While I believe Jackie did grow fond of JFK after many bumps in the road, Jackie exulted in being First Lady.
I disbelieve rumors of an affair with RFK sheerly because he was such an unattractive wee bantam of a man. He wasn't Jackie's type at all. But after JFK's murder, I can see them drawing close- but as family. It must be the most underrated and underexplored trope of life and literature, the (non-sexual) bond that a man can have with his brother's wife. And heightened to the extent of the Kennedy dramas of those years- well yes, I can see a bond forming. They'd already been through a lot together, Bobby and Jackie were canny allies. They weren't fools. They probably talked and coordinated the aftermath of JFK's hundreds of infidelities.
I think they had a bond there, they were friends. Imagining a romance in a tabloid way, - well people will do that. But Bobby was such a boring grind, Jackie eager to flee to her new life- I don't think it's likely. They had deep and fond affection for each other, as inlaws can. And when Bobby was killed, Jackie fled to Onassis for protection. She realized what a dangerous family she was linked to. What a sick deja vĂ¹ Bobby's murder must have been.
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"No darling, that's what we call a sponge."
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Yeah, or just stop scorching your brain with tons of acid every day. Jesus fucking Ca-hrist.
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"It takes both youse to have great sex," [He-Man] said. "Foreplay is the main thing with women; you gotta warm them up."
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"Mr. Nelson said that great sex requires patience and communication. Which is impossible in a coffee shop bathroom or under a blanket in the park."
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Because he doesn't need to be "the shit" -- he simply is the way he is, and he lives here because New York is still home for those who probably belong no where else in America. And the floods of dickheads who come here to act out in public because they go to art school or whatever (before they move back to Omaha to be "the shit") cannot begin to equal his casual, odd, majesty.
*tears up* I love this city...
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Well you're just going to have to keep searching because this gem of a man is taken.
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