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...good thing about winning re-election: this year Bill Clinton didn't have to consult pollsters to choose his vacation spot. But when he returns next month from three weeks of golf and sun on Martha's Vineyard, the country may wonder if another election looms, because the White House will be dispensing a new dose of the same formula Clinton and his pollsters perfected in last year's campaign. Call it the Cult of the Child. From day care to children's health to keeping schools open all afternoon, the White House will be churning out new kid-focused...
EDGARTOWN, Mass: Rumor has it President Clinton will get 51st birthday cheers tonight from actor Ted Danson and his actress wife Mary Steenburgen (like Clinton, an Arkansas native) at their 19th century farmhouse on Martha's Vineyard. The White House is neither confirming nor denying that singer James Taylor, also a Vineyard local, will attend. Best presidential present: The settlement of the UPS strike...
Never mind that after removing mildewed mattresses and broken toys, many of us will want a glass of something stronger than club soda, even if it's poured into the Mason jar we've just emptied of rusty nails. This is Martha Stewart for the spirit, and like the doyenne of impossibly complicated domestic arts, Ban Breathnach is exhausting in her particulars yet somehow soothing in her totality. Few devotees of Martha Stewart are going to build a Palais de Poulet, then match their wall colors to the aubergine eggs laid by her free-range chickens. And it's unlikely...
Nevertheless, I'm pleased to see that the "permanent campaign" is over and Clinton is unshackled from the tyranny of the polls. Not having to run again, he can go back to Martha's Vineyard, which is obviously the place that a Dem-ocratic President up for re-election should have avoided from the start: for years the Vineyard has been known as the summer home of intellectuals and academics and journalists and entertainers who are liberal in their politics, and it has also been known as the single most difficult place in the entire country for a non-property...
Unlike President Eisenhower's golfing partners, the people President Clinton will play golf with in Martha's Vineyard may be rich from movie deals or from Washington law firms rather than rich from CEO salaries, but they're still rich. The voters are aware that none of those guys are lined up at a national park in August, waiting for their turn to sleep on the ground...