Word: sheepskin
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...privacy and enter this very public sphere as investors and producers. Entering the offices of Igor Desyatnikov in central Moscow, visitors are obliged to pass through a metal detector, then withstand the menacing stares of several bodyguards. Desyatnikov himself sits behind a large walnut-topped desk, a colonel's sheepskin hat resting on a far corner. Desyatnikov made his fortune in the sale of a private bank in 2004, and he heads an investor group that is putting up roughly $15 million for You and I. He also acts in the movie, playing a rogue named Ivan. Desyatnikov has appeared...
...school was the high point of the tour. The stage was a plastic-covered gymnasium floor, with headmaster Yoshio Shinohara's office standing in as green room. "I feel Australia is very close to my heart," says Shinohara, pointing out a Melbourne tea towel, kangaroo ashtray and koala-adorned sheepskin cushion?legacies of previous student exchanges...
Berks 50 JFK Street (617) 492-9511 Sheepskin Ugg Insoles $15. Be elitist on the inside...
...ironic fashion sense.The sporting of pink and green to the polo club has always been a sort of tongue-in-cheek mode of self-expression, but final clubs members take it to an all new level. Spouting-whale pants? Ha! Madras print flannel boxers and loafers made out of sheepskin? That’s enough to inspire dry-yet-ironic chuckling from any peanut gallery!People always complain about the cloying preppiness or seemingly ingrained class differences rampant in the popped collar. One popped collar may be annoying. But five? Pink ones? At the same time? On the same person...
...Winton's novels, minor characters are often set adrift only to resurface in other works; here they overlap and metamorphose. The collection's most haunting figure, small-town crim and shark hunter Boner McPharlin, goes from being the sheepskin-coated kid glimpsed in Long, Clear View to the silent driving partner of the narrator of Boner McPharlin's Moll, who, decades later, returns from overseas to nurse him in a psychiatric hospital. At its best, the device creates a poetic sense of ribboning destiny. "Perhaps time moves through us," concludes the narrator of Aquifer, "and not us through...