If he doesn't like a question, it often seems that this is not because it is embarrassing or he doesn't want to answer it, but because he thinks it's been formulated in a woolly, time-wasting way.
"Now I was a chronicler of my own life, by 60s standards perhaps not too egregiously adventurous and experimental, but in a newspaper in full public view, in the most fractured Dada style of work I had admired as a critic — a rather wild spectacle in those woolly times," she wrote on her Web site.
It's how we survived in Woolly Mammoth Times, running away from stuff to avoid being eaten.
Singing Lucrezia's manipulative husband, Duke Alfonso, is the veteran Italian bass Ruggero Raimondi, a great Verdi stylist who still sounded vocally imposing, if a little woolly at times.
The exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art surveys that trend with a woolly, at times idiosyncratic assemblage of more than 350 individual displays by 118 European artists spread over two levels of the museum.
This is around the same time that woolly mammoths split with Asian elephants, and humans split with chimps.
An hour later we were floating down on Althorp's woolly tarmac one last time, our weekend at an end, facing withdrawal from butlers, HRHs, quail eggs and tables blazing with plate, and the mother of all traffic jams on the M1 back into London.
Due to some time-travelling mishap, Kirk and Spock find themselves marooned in depression-era New York where Kirk falls in love with Edith, who runs the homeless shelter that takes them in (Spock being sure to wear a woolly hat at all times to hide his ears).
To fill the time, the woolly-hatted cameramen filmed the backs of the photographers, the balcony, the tent concealing the body, then repositioned themselves for wide shots that encompassed the chaos that had exploded inside the sedate and snowy Mayfair street, with its lines of glossy black doors framed by white stone porticos and flanked by topiary shrubs.
All in all, the woolly rhinos had a harder time than their Eocene and Oligocene ancestors.
Though his first job was sculpturing architectural reliefs, he was hired as the advertising art director at Selznick Pictures in 1921, when he was only 18. Hirschfeld's breakthrough caricature for The New York Times was a woolly depiction of the Scottish vaudevillian Harry Lauder, in 1928.
