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...remember the video for Take on Me. A woman finds herself sucked into a poorly drawn black-and white-comic strip, where she quickly falls in love with an animated, mullet-wearing gent in a leather jacket. The two of them are then inexplicably chased by a team of pipe wrench-wielding motorcycle racers dressed like Muttley from Wacky Races. He protects her and soon escapes his monochrome prison. The song's buoyant synth lines rejoice. The video is so easily mockable that Family Guy, predictably, took its own crack...
...Dorfman has a small paneled room, lined with his books and sports trophies, close enough to the front door so that if Mrs. Dorfman is out, cigars can be enjoyed. There's just enough room for a leather easy chair and ottoman, where Dorfman himself presides, and a big love seat, where two men can sit without accidentally touching. The focal point of the Man Cave, of course, is the high-definition TV, a once state-of-the-art-and now relatively puny-36-in. (91 cm) liquid-crystal-display (lcd) screen. "Want to watch the Michigan game?" I asked...
...your home, you are sharing your secrets and baring your soul. This is our aim," he says. So in Tokyo, a city that fascinated Dunhill, there are not only clothes, gadgets and gizmos for sale but also the services a man appreciates: a skilled barber, a specialist in leather-cleaning and, to relax, the only bar that overlooks the Ginza strip. In the historic French Concession area of Shanghai, there is a Travel and Discovery Room complete with a library as well as an art gallery. In London, much of the attraction will be the unique location, in Bourdon House...
...Junya Watanabe Man brown tweed jacket ($1,595), red-and-white gingham shirt ($380) and brown corduroy pants with leather patch pockets ($465; Comme des Garçons N.Y., 212-604-9200) 2 Loro Piana baby cashmere scarf ($775; loropiana.com 3 Alfredo Häberli for Alias Taormina chair in Kvadrat fabric ($940; aliasusa.com 4 J. Crew tweed fedora hat ($68; jcrew.com 5 Etro nylon and tweed men's bag ($1,400; etro.it) 6 Alexander Olch blue and gray herringbone tie ($160; Bergdorf Goodman Men's, 212-753-7300) 7 Harrys of London Mansion slippers ($650; San Giorgio Shoes...
...sees the gleaming new Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.) But the real fascination is how the show plays off the techno-expectations about police work that CSI has bred into us. With no computers or lab work, Sam has to chase his case '70s-style, with shoe leather and - as his new boss, Lieutenant Gene Hunt (Harvey Keitel), demonstrates - a healthy disregard for search warrants...