Word: marthaã
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...year-old sees her recent $50 million contribution to President George W. Bush’s 2004 campaign not as a donation, but rather as an investment that will help her live out the rest of her days sipping raspberry lemonade on the porch of her mansion in Martha??s Vineyard...
...despite the pretense of the press pass, hard-hitting investigative journalists we ain’t. The hardest part about this assignment was costume choice. The dress code was casual elegance, which conjured visions of a languid Gwyneth Paltrow on mini-break in Martha??s Vineyard. Our collective penchant for polo shirts aside, we were a decidedly un-WASPy duo. A strident atheist from the colonies and a half-Asian from the land of café au lait do not a country club maketh, as the saying goes. Consequently, many anguished e-mails ensued in our attempt...
...this tool at your local art supply store, and it’s marvelous,”) the agreeable, television-induced stupor that had previously evaded me finally set in. Here at last was television as an escape. The glow of the studio lights and Martha??s instruction that we pay a visit to the local art supply store in order to properly core our pears leant television the air of unreality I had remembered so fondly. Gone was the uncomfortable immediacy of all those exploding bombs...
...programs had incorporated the war into their daily programming. The war I had become used to was an anomaly, its exceptional status denoted by extra-large newspaper headlines and regular protests. But this television war, forced into the familiar framework of regularly scheduled broadcasts, seemed almost as remote as Martha??s television studio kitchen...
During a routine ultrasound en route to Martha??s Vineyard, the Fairchilds’ doctor discovered that Naia had a hole in her heart. The condition would require open heart surgery a month after her birth...