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...associate deanship will undergo something of a metamorphosis under Herschbach, Under Herschbach's soon-to-be predecessor, Martha G. Gefter, the job was primarily a financial one. Herschbach, on the other hand, will be a more all-around adviser...
...students to take advantage of many things they would not have time for during the year. Doing things during the summer is less of a hassle; the annoying people who get in the way during the year are off being annoying somewhere else--like Hyannis, Cape Cod, Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard...
...Martha, 54, so much more influential than, say, Alice Waters, the Chez Panisse chef who transformed restaurant cooking? It's because Marthaland is a one-stop shop, for everything from bed to kitchen to garden, where one thing stylishly builds on another. She pulls all this off with total earnestness (except when she is paid to be ironic by American Express, lining her swimming pool with a mosaic of cut-up credit cards). Otherwise, she stays in character: that of a demanding schoolmistress who will be coming around to test for trace elements of bottled dressing in your salade nicoise...
...worthy of the effort it requires. Sure it's easier to identify with Gloria Steinem, who admits she once lived in an apartment for four years before realizing the oven didn't work. By making the impossible purchasable--at least in magazine and catalog form--Stewart is now simply Martha: cooking, sewing, gilding, planting, wallpapering and painting her way into every corner of your house--and your life. And Christmas? You'd better watch...
...Martha Duffy. Reported by Bruce Crumley/Paris