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...Still a Man's World. Men make war, run the government and maintain sole custody of the remote control. They also cause the most political trouble: the Keating Five, Abscam, Iran-contra. Martha Mitchell tried to insert herself into Watergate but got stuck with a hypodermic needle and put to bed before we could hear much from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: With Women Like These... | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

Where is the N.R.A.'s courage of its convictions? No guns were allowed at its recent Philadelphia convention! Somehow it is O.K. for members to carry weapons on streets and in malls but not at the convention. What does that say about N.R.A. members? MARTHA FINK Carmel Valley, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 27, 1998 | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

...MARTHA'S VINEYARD Disruptive Clintons to vacation there again. Will Vernon Jordan return as First Golfing Buddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jun. 29, 1998 | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

While conventional wisdom holds that any sane person, given the chance, would depart Cambridge as soon as possible for Cape Cod or the Maine Coast or Martha's Vineyard or Newport, it just isn't the case. Cambridge's long hot months have a lot going for them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHEN THE DAYS GET LONG, CAMBRIDGE HEATS UP AND... | 6/19/1998 | See Source »

...cast was fully as long. Did she invent modern dance? No, but she came to embody it, arrogantly and spectacularly--and, it appears, permanently. "When the legend becomes fact," said the newspaper editor in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, "print the legend." The legend of Martha Graham long ago became fact, just as her utterly personal technique has become part of the common vocabulary of dancers everywhere. "The center of the stage is where I am," she once said. It still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dancer MARTHA GRAHAM | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

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