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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...
Liberated from having to take his family on vacation wherever it would do him the most good electorally, President Clinton decided to go back to Martha's Vineyard, Mass., where, as we used to say when Dwight D. Eisenhower was President, he can play golf with his rich friends...
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...
...activities office wait until the morning of the trip to notify us of the threat we posed to the entire island of Martha's Vineyard? Furthermore, if this is a sort of quarantine for us, why are the gates of Harvard open for the unsuspecting foreign tourist to contract measles? We can take the T into Boston, a thriving metropolis stuffed with people from all over the world-but we can't take a bus to the beach for fear of contaminating the Vineyard...