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With the Sunday paper for sheet and blanket and a tombstone as headboard, the two young men sleeping in Boston's historic Old Granary Burying Ground last week looked at first glance like a thousand others of the city's derelicts. Waking at dawn, they warmed up in the Park Street subway station, washed their dirty faces in the Trailways bus terminal, then looked for work at a day-labor hiring hall. In fact, there was only one thing that separated Frank Huszar and Peter Dahm from the mob of down-and-outers in the hall. The others...
...Angeles doctor takes old X-ray pictures, adds a little yarn edging and creates startling place mats. In Research Engineer Peter Gottlieb's West Los Angeles home, one child sleeps happily beneath a headboard made of bright cartons of Screaming Yellow Zonkers, a beloved popcorn product. Or consider Dr. Richard Gieser's sparkling decor in Wheaton, Ill.: his sofa is an old bathtub on legs, with one side cut away, lined with pillows. His favorite chair is another tub, upended. It has, Mrs. Gieser says, "a nestlike quality...
...cheapest, easiest way to furnish an apartment, it turns out, does not involve a single visit to the thrift shop or the Salvation Army. Now a savvy decorator can pick up a headboard, radio, picture frame, Tiffany lamp shade, stained-glass window and even a bubble-gum machine, all for less than $30-and carry them home in a shopping bag. That's because People Paper is instant make-believe furniture, designed to be pasted onto walls...
...four months since they hit the market, nearly 150,000 People Paper pieces have sold (the most expensive, a Victorian brass headboard at $6). All adhere to any surface, can be switched around and remounted like a stage backdrop. They also give their owners some grand illusions: of a phone without phone bills, a Tiffany shade that does not have to be insured, and a bubble-gum machine that is guaranteed never, never...
...shades always drawn, he has effectively banished daylight from his life. He eats when he pleases?a kitchen staff is on duty 24 hours a day. But then he subsists largely on Pepsi-Colas, which are stocked in small refrigerators scattered throughout his quarters, including one in the headboard of his bed. Often he doesn't even know what day it is. A friend suggested giving him a set of seven pajamas with the day embroidered on each?in reverse writing so that he would just have to look in the mirror while shaving to see where...