When a choreographer started getting good press, she fired him.
She spent nearly $40 million (in 1980s dollars) to effectively run a ballet company bearing her name into the ground. Harkness fancied herself a patron of the arts, though her efforts, by her own choices, failed spectacularly. Harkness dancing with her ballet company in 1966. There’s only so far new money goes.” Together, the couple bought a compound on the shores of Rhode Island. “The wedding was charming, if a little gauche.
Unger describes Harkness as an “embarrassing” type of guy. That’s why Swift says people are already gossiping about Harkness and wondering how a “middle-class divorcée” managed to snag the heir to Standard Oil. Harkness had already been married and divorced once when she married Will Harkness in 1947. The “Bitch Pack” she refers to here were Harkness’ school friends, Judy and Jane, who were known in the press as the “bitch squad” /kpxVB6Q2re- rachel syme July 24, 2020 Filled the pool with Champagne and swam with the big names.” Again, sound familiar? “Flew in all her Bitch Pack friends from the city. Harkness and some of her friends were known in popular media back then as the “bitch squad.” Sound familiar? In the lyrics, Swift talks about how Harkness would bring the squad to her house in Rhode Island for lavish parties. Talk to me about the “bitch pack” Swift is singing about. The details from the Times are via a review of the book.) Louis.” Born in 1915 to a family the Times described as “rich” and “emotionally frigid” her primary caretaker was a nanny who was selected namely because she had once been employed by an “insane asylum.” She attended a finishing school where her main goal, according to her scrapbook, was to “do everything bad.” (Craig Unger wrote a 14-page profile that later became a book, Blue Blood, about Harkness for New York in 1983. “Her saltbox house on the coast took her mind off St.
“Rebekah rode up on the afternoon train, it was sunny,” Swift sings at the top of the track. She was a mid-century socialite whose tale aligns nicely with Swift’s demonstrated lyrical love of all things Champagne, swimming pools, and narratives about patriarchal society. The song is called “ the last great american dynasty” and tells the story of Rebekah Harkness. Swift later bought said house for $17 million and used it, notably, to host Fourth of July parties seen round the world. Louis–born debutante who married the heir to Standard Oil, bought a giant house in Rhode Island, lived a wild life, died, and had some of her remains toted home by her daughter in a Gristedes bag because they would not all fit the urn custom-made by Salvador Dalí. It’s got … a lengthy semi-nonfictional track about Rebekah Harkness, a St. It’s got collabs with Bon Iver and the National’s Aaron Dessner. Taylor Swift’s eighth album, folklore, is out of the woods and into our ears. Oil heiress Rebekah Harkness’s life inspired a stranger-than-fiction track on Taylor Swift’s new album, folklore.
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