Every doorknob bore an elk head in relief.
There are occasional rock-starish tantrums, and the interior decoration (satanic doorknobs and demon-head towel racks) is a little odd, but it is Ozzy's harmlessness, and the family's struggles to hold their essentially humdrum lives together, that give the show its appeal.
His head turns like a doorknob in any direction," said Mikkie Belvedere, past president of the Wynmoor Democratic Club and a Coconut Creek city commissioner.
For example, a question concerning "turning a doorknob" does not work in Sweden, where there are no such doorknobs.
Since I couldn't wait a week (or several) for a carpenter, I headed to Home Depot and bought a Schlage doorknob (around $29).
He clutched the doorknob with both hands and seemed almost to hang from it, his head bowed, moving his lips as though the keyhole were the meatus of an ear.
Every object a middle-class American family might ever want to possess seemed to have been thrown into an open-air blender and scattered on the ground: a Mr. Potato Head, a kayak, a guinea-pig cage, a PlayStation 2, a doorknob, a high-school graduation photo, a microwave, a football magazine, a casino chip, a computer monitor.
The woman's head and one breast extend into the hallway; her hand is the doorknob.
As Hunt, standing on the deck of the H.M.S. Belfast, jingled along with the crowd, the head of the his handbell flew off as farcically as a loosened doorknob.
"I hope we can find something to take home," Foos said, walking slowly, with his head down, searching for a memento or two that might be added to his collections perhaps a doorknob or a room number.
