Word: martha
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...Lucky for Martha, there's another vilified damsel to provide guidance: Hillary. The two have a lot more in common than first-name recognition. Both rose to the top by dint of brains, resolve, and marriages that jump-started their careers - Martha's to the publisher of her first books, Hillary's to a governor-to-be. Both have had their financial transactions investigated by ambitious prosecutors. Both were humiliated by husbands who fell for younger women. Both are loved and hated for driving while blond...
...though, their fortunes couldn't have been more different. Hillary was soaring high, a U.S. senator whose mega-memoir, Living History, had topped the bestseller list before reaching the shelves, even as she was being hailed by many Democrats as her party's best hope of recapturing the presidency. Martha, meanwhile, was stepping down from the presidency of a billion-dollar empire she started from scratch, having been arraigned at Manhattan's federal courthouse on charges of securities fraud and obstruction of justice. She may have been spared the perp walk, but the sight of Martha in such imperfect circumstances...
...that spectacle lay the seeds of Martha's resurrection, if only she'll stop wielding her whisk long enough to take note of Hillary's example...
...House, she first stonewalled, haughtily dismissing her detractors as politically motivated. That worked to a point. A raft of grand juries declined to indict her for anything: not Whitewater, not Castle Grande, not missing billing records, not cattle futures. She occasionally leavened her approach with, well, a touch of Martha, giving a tour of the mansion at Christmas showcasing homemade ornaments, gushing over the pastry chef as he prepared a State Dinner, going on a heritage tour with Ralph Lauren, publishing a book on entertaining at the White House. But none of that rehabilitated her public image. It took...
...Martha has modeled herself more on the early, emotion-free Hillary - most memorably in that disastrous CBS Morning News appearance shortly after the insider-trading allegations broke. She snapped that the accusations against her were "ridiculous," and then brandishing her knife at the head of cabbage she was turning into coleslaw, she concluded "I'm just going to focus on my salad." In a flash, we saw the Martha behind the fluffy 300-thread count towels, the one alleged to have fired her gardener over pennies and to turn to ice the minute the klieg lights...