Jean Touitou has my coat, a vintage sheepskin number, splayed out on a table.
Runner-up: Ikea monkey was commended by judges for his or her impressive appearance in Leonardo's Last Supper, the first time a miniature primate in a sheepskin coat had ever been inserted into a 500-year-old artwork.
The contrast with the English, who produced a document that inspired 800 years of idealism but failed to follow up with a modern constitution, was implied rather than stated.This is only one of the many contradictions embedded in this revered piece of sheepskin inscribed with oak gall and sealed with beeswax and resin.
This apparent rudeness, however, is less a part of the man himself than of his hair and beard, of his shaggy sheepskin, and the loud deep tone of his voice.
Some sported ski jackets previously worn on European slopes; others wore Russian felt boots and sheepskin coats.What they had in common was not their incomes, but their unwillingness to be treated as imbeciles by their government.
AT A glance, the calf-length cape that a good-looking young model swirled around on stage appeared to be made of shaggy sheepskin, wildly inappropriate for the tropical climate of Pattaya, a seaside resort in Thailand.
They found an old sheepskin coat; I put it on.
THE sheepskin slipped slightly this week from the purposefully pacific figure of Ariel Sharon, the front-runner for Israel's prime-ministerial election on February 6th, exposing what Ehud Barak insists is the grizzled general's immutably lupine proclivities.
He had travelled by yak and on foot; he was now verminous and starving, in rags of sheepskin, crippled with sciatica from sleeping on frozen ground, and without a rupee to his name.
The female fashion fad of the moment is the Ugg shoe, an ugly but supremely comfortable sheepskin boot originally made for Australia's surfers, male and female, when they get out of the water.
His hair is long and shaggy, and so is his beard; his person is dirty, he is always noisy; and when wrapped up in his sheepskin he certainly presents a figure more suitable for a bandit or a murderer than for a man devoted to peaceable occupations.
