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From the exquisitely small to the unreasonably vast: guests have left notches on the bedposts of the 3-m-by-3.5-m Great Bed of Ware since 1590. Now it is ready for a good night's sleep with bedding made from period fabric...
...Garrick, wife of the actor David, was a keen follower of 18th century fashion. Her painted Chinese silk dress has a skirt so wide she must have had to go through doors sideways. She wasn't so lucky with some bed hangings she tried to smuggle in. "It was illegal to import Chinese silk," says chief curator Christopher Wilk, "because Great Britain was trying to protect the U.K. textile industry." The fabric was impounded, which left poor Mrs. Garrick "weeping like Rachel for her children," as her husband wrote to a friend. She hung the recovered material around a bed...
...Afghan children shown in your pictures of Afghanistan are beautiful [PHOTO ESSAY, Nov. 5]. It seems as though they should be no different from children anywhere who want to have plenty to eat and go to bed with visions of pleasurable things. I've yet to meet a kid from any culture who didn't get excited about Disney World and Disney characters. Imagine how little Afghan faces would brighten if they had the opportunity to see these things! It could be said that bin Laden, al-Qaeda and the Taliban have waged war against Mickey Mouse. Maybe that should...
...members gifts," says Michiko. "You know, so they notice us and maybe let us ... you know ... " Yuko giggles. (They've heard of groupies who have partied with the band.) Passing men notice them, and the girls know they can always use them for a free meal or a bed. But they settle in a manga kissa, a brightly lit caf? lined with shelves of comic books and crowded with other teens, curling up until morning, when they'll hop a train to the next stop on the boy band's tour...
...overturned both the table and the Nok Hockey board. Then he grabbed me, since I was the nearest human around, and proceeded to pummel me. He smashed my face into the wall, making my mouth bleed, until I was face down in a small pool of blood on my bed...