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...named Hank Moody (David Duchovny) is a writer, dad and horndog looking for a second chance from his ex (Natascha McElhone), his daughter (Madeleine Martin) and life in general. With its sculpted bodies and broad farce, Californication can play like a parody of a cable sexcom, but Duchovny is martini-dry as the world-weary Hank...
...feels no shame that she has sex for a living; nor does Showtime, whose Call Girl ads have a retro-glam shot of Piper reclining in a martini glass. An Amy Winehouse theme song adds to the gritty-chic vibe. In a way that is sure to offend liberal feminists and conservative moralists alike, Call Girl is glamorous yet not glamorized. Belle has expensive clothes and a fab flat, but she doesn't have a fantasy life--just a well-paying job embodying men's fantasies...
...Frank “No Lips” Burns, who together perfected the art of irritation. And finally to Benjamin Franklin Pierce—Hawkeye—whose limitless storehouse of wit kept American punsters in full supply. To the 4077th M*A*S*H we raise our martini glasses one last time (ingredients: plenty of gin) in a toast to Lorenzo Schwartz, the inventor of vermouth...
...Europe. The constant back-and-forth of Buddhist scholars between India and China nourished the Silk Road as an avenue of commerce. Sometimes religious divines explicitly advanced the process of globalization long before anyone knew of the word. I collect maps of the provinces of China drawn by Martino Martini, a 17th century Italian Jesuit missionary whose exquisite cartography revealed China to the world-and, indeed, to the Chinese themselves...
...invasion of Iraq. But the influential prelate, then head of the Vatican's office for internal doctrinal matters, clearly had a forceful opinion. Soon after the bombs fell on Baghdad, the topic came up in April 2003 as Ratzinger talked with fellow Cardinals Carlo Maria Martini of Italy and Paul Poupard of France at an intimate Vatican diplomatic reception. A Church official present that evening remembers the typically soft-spoken German shaking his fists, and blurting out in Italian: "Basta! Basta!" Enough! Enough...