He entered No 10 wearing the straw boater of jaunty comical arrogance; he recently tried the itchy woollen hat of humble public servitude; and now he wanders between micro-managed photo-opportunities – a milk-guzzling lamb, a paint-smeared child – without any hat at all, bareheaded in the storms.
Even more important, it must put an end to the non-stop burgeoning of Jewish settlements.Mr Bush, if he is really now exchanging his brass hat for a peacemaking boater, must insist that Mr Sharon obey the road map's injunctions both on normalisation and on a settlement freeze.
The straw boater, originally meant to be worn on the river, became popular for all summer activities.
A game warden described Ms Brockovich as exhibiting "several signs of an intoxicated boater" and called the police.
And why did director Hugh Hudson refuse to show Abrahams winning his race, cutting instead to his trainer, Mr Mussabini (Ian Holm), punching a hole in his straw boater on hearing the National Anthem?
(One well-travelled series of candid shots, posted on the Web, shows a smiling Ramirez wearing a boater and a football jersey, first at a bar and then, evidently having been talked into visiting a collegiate apartment, dancing with young women, one in her pajamas).
Hansen was wearing a trench coat and a wide-brimmed canvas boater.
The cat reaches into a pocket and removes a straw boater, which he places on his head at a rakish angle.
He was investigating a missing boater, he said, and explained that some duck hunters had found a canoe and that my phone number had turned up among the gear in the boat.
Only at these early stages of the Olympic Games could a runner win the marathon after falling repeatedly and running in the wrong direction (he was later disqualified due to the physical assistance he received from a megaphone-toting man in a boater hat, above).
Then Smith noticed an unfamiliar canoe tied to one of the slips, using the hitch knot of an experienced boater.
