Very often, Mr. Sonnenfeld sends the camera hurtling off to observe what the props are doing (the bearskin rug on the floor opens its mouth and growls) before returning to the characters' own tricks.

"Ladyboys in Thailand don't have good jobs," Chan said from PC Air's 34th-floor Bangkok HQ, where crystalline chandeliers and white bearskin rugs distract from the sprawling view of the city below.

Also, you can bring home an old bearskin rug or a stuffed moose head to go above your mantel if you are so barbarically inclined.

In the midst of a boudoir montage, one would-be erotic shot finds the stars simply stretched out nude on their stomachs, like stacked bearskin rugs.

The old bearskin rug . . . the only thing she had really liked . . . was gone.

Qwilleran eyed the apartment avidly-particularly the big loungy chair in bold black-and-white plaid, the row of built-in bookcases, and, wonder of wonder, a white bearskin rug.

He stared up at the beamed ceiling two stories overhead, noted the big plaid chair, remembered the white bearskin rug.

Her composition of large-scale leaves, blossoms and heart shapes, all deeply fuzzed, has the thickness of a white bearskin rug.

He turned his head, saw a grinning, brown-faced man in a Gooberplast playsuit sitting cross-legged on a synthetic bearskin rug, laying out a hand of solitaire.

Natalie Clifford Barney stretched across a white bearskin rug wearing knickers and looking surprisingly contemporary for a girl born in 1876.