Word: martini
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...love my girlfriend. We're soul mates. She could honestly be the love of my life. She just turned 21, though, and our relationship is on the rocks. Every time we go out, she orders martinis--two at a time. She likes to take the olives and shove them up her nostrils. She says she likes the smell of martini-soaked olives. I tell her it's humiliating, but she's addicted. Now I'm a mortified co-dependent and she's a shameless spectacle. The insanity must stop, but how? Hiding my head at the Harvest...
...hemisphere's last communist begins his evening with a martini. As he plucks the quintessentially American refreshment from the tray, Fidel Castro seems surprisingly muted. Or perhaps it is simply the mark of age: he is still a big man, trim and barrel-chested, but his 68 years are visible in the skin of his face, which is approaching the translucence of old parchment...
...contractor for Memorial Hall is A.J. Martini, Inc. The contractor for the humanities complex has not yet been selected, according to Parsons, but Shawmut Construction is providing pre-construction services...
Among the Italians, the best-known candidate is Carlo Maria Martini. As the Archbishop of Milan, Europe's largest archdiocese, Martini, 67, is promoted by moderate Catholics as the single most papabile prince of the Roman Catholic Church. Suave, brilliant, cosmopolitan, he hews closely to John Paul's dogma but is reputed to harbor less conservative inclinations. Some are convinced Martini could spur reform on issues such as celibacy and women priests. On contraception, he once said, "I believe the Church's teaching has not been expressed so well . . . I'm confident we will find some formula to state things...
...Martini, however, is a Jesuit, and the conservative College of Cardinals is not likely to look kindly upon even a moderate member of an order with a reputation for liberalism. And Vatican watchers never tire of invoking this aphorism: "He who goes into the conclave the next Pope, comes out a Cardinal." Martini has done everything to discourage discussion of his chances of succession -- including voicing his desire to be buried in the Holy Land. Implicit in that is the fact that Popes are buried in Rome...