The tortoise raised its wormy head and fixed him with an old eye above its nostriled beak.
Borbay, a shaggy bleached-blond 31-year old with an eye for haberdashery, came to the art world full-time two years ago after stints in graphic design, reality television, advertising and stand-up comedy.
Since some facsimiles were made long ago, they look old to an untrained eye.
Now, the 22-year-old man has plastic eye sockets, metal rods in his legs and a rebuilt nose.
Mohammad Nabi, 21, and 19-year-old Hamid Hassan caught the eye when playing for Afghanistan against the MCC in Mumbai earlier this year.
They had dogs with them, too a short, fat hound with floppy ears and an old red sheepdog with one eye.
The team was full of big characters and not all of them saw eye-to-eye with their old boss, but they will all tell you that his influence was huge.
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Previously, trainers could select any one of a number of routes to Louisville, choosing from among the nearly 200 graded stakes races available to 2- and 3-year-old horses, keeping an eye on money earned only.
The 43-year-old Galli (pronounced GAL-eye) has painted visions of greatness before, but they have fizzled out.
Just like the town itself, the old Railway Hotel rarely catches the eye in an era when glitz counts.
On Friday a 14-year-old girl was stabbed in the eye as she fought off two men who attempted to rape her.
The 25-year-old is keen to catch the eye again of England boss Fabio Capello, who has told the forward to develop more of a nasty streak.
The 42-year-old elephant had a huge abscess near his eye that no one ever tried to remove.
So far, so much an oopsie as, in the words of Private Eye, new technology baffles pissed old hack.
The 71-year-old chairman of the American Wing developed his eye for craftsmanship as a teenage "amateur cabinetmaker" growing up in Philadelphia.
The 30-year-old Saracens player spent the night in Moorfields Eye Hospital before being told scans had revealed no more than "extreme swelling".
"I relish going into the trenches, looking the other guy in the eye and sorting things out the old fashioned way, " said Froch.
"Jonah" was painted amid this clutter, and it can look, with a bit of prodding and eye-squinting, like an old moccasin among discarded dropcloths.
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These systems, used to scout players and create massive databases of information for clubs to analyze, are far more advanced than instant replay and provide quite the double-standard for the argument that baseball is a pure old-fashioned sport judged by the human eye.
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Zona caught the eye of the 33-year-old venture capitalist at a similar venture fair in Virginia last September.
You want to pay your taxes to a balding, bespectacled old curmudgeon, preferably overweight and incapable of making eye contact.
Koch's cardiologist wanted to keep a closer eye on the 88-year-old, who was also showing an iron deficiency, spokesman George Arzt said.
Angela Voelkert, 29, created a fake Facebook profile, adopting the persona of Jessica Studebaker, a 17-year-old girl who likes Elvis and lots of dark eye make-up.
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In 1993 paintings by a struggling, little-known 22-year-old, Jenny Saville, caught Saatchi's eye, and he set her up in a studio, paying her to work for a year making art for his gallery.
Cannibalize old drives, look for sales online, keep an eye out for friends with neglected machines lying around.
And on my visit to the old Warsaw Ghetto, a woman looked me in the eye, and she wanted to make sure America stood with Israel.
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By comparison, the London Eye, the popular 12-year-old tourist attraction on the South Bank near Parliament, is 443 feet tall, while Deno's Wonder Wheel at Coney Island stands 150 feet high.
In the beginning, there was the lordly general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford), a Bible-quoting, sixty-four-year-old Republican with a strong moralistic streak and a sharp eye for business.
As speculation builds that presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney has his eye on the charismatic 40-year-old Cuban-American as a possible running mate, political observers want to learn everything they can about him.
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