Word: beds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Recover your musical Rudolf bed slippers and obnoxious jingle-belled neck ties from the moth balls and mosey on down to the Annual Gingerbread House Competition. This Christmas festival showcases a smattering of crafts and edible goods, representing the efforts of more than 300 contributers. Commonwealth Pier, Northern Ave., 742-3973. $7 for regular tickets, free for children under...
...decor of the typical Harvard room contains little beyond the basics: twin extra long bed, desk, dresser, bookshelves, books and a computer. Common accents to this functional arrangement include posters and photographs, brand-name bedding, "quirky" knick-knacks and a TV or high-tech stereo...
Directly opposite the television is The Bed, a queen-sized structure extending from a nook in the wall (originally a closet). The Bed is covered by a silky black comforter and framed by a leopard-print valance and bedskirt. The leopard-print motif also saturates the room's black, blue and orange patterned rug as well as its black and yellow window drapes. Black lights illuminate posters of Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley while to the side a "Cosmic Circle" light radiates gently...
What prompted Waller to decorate this way? "I always have a lot of friends come over and I need a comfortable place away from academia," he says. But why do several rows of square mirrors panel the walls surrounding the bed? "The mirrors make [it] look bigger." Do they...
Waller's neighbor, Joseph P. Weidle '99, lives in a less shocking but equally impressive version of the libido lair. Again, the bed is the centerpiece of the room, but here the pallet conjures up the aura of an Arabian harem. Paisley print canopies billow across the bed frame and ceiling, dimming the light to a romantic incandescence. Lava lamps rest mounted from the bed frame and a teddy bear reclines near the pillows while the ubiquitous mirror paneling covers the adjacent walls. "It's so comfortable, I can't get out of bed," Weidle comments...