He knew he made a comical picture, a middle-aged man, still slim, with a full head of graying hair, sitting up in bed, letting himself go, blubbering, wailing, indulging in wild, spontaneous woe.

NEWYORKER: After the Movie

Marjorie wore her quilted bathrobe, and her bulb of short graying hair was lopsided from lying in bed.

NEWYORKER: The Visitor

"When I started to work with the Americans, it was a very wonderful job, " she says, sitting on her bed with her long, dark hair in a simple braid.

CNN: Iraqi interpreter: 'Now I have no future'

Some need to be told that "bed head, " clumped-up hair from a night on the pillow, is out.

CNN: Dressed For Success

Ms Dean and Dr Siva-Jothy were testing the idea that fine body hairs (known, technically, as vellus and terminal hairs) are there to alert their owner to creepy crawlies such as bed bugs, which might be intent on biting them, and that the hair may also get in the way of such arthropods' activities, giving the owner more time to react before he is bitten.

ECONOMIST: Body hair

Dressed in olive green overalls and white hospital slippers, his black hair neatly trimmed, his eyes bright and alert, he was sitting up on the edge of his bed after performing his noon prayers.

BBC: Meeting Bahrain's hunger striker Abdulhadi al-Khawaja

And the other thing is people know who you are everywhere -- obviously. (Laughter.) So you have to -- you always have to like shave and comb your hair and -- (laughter) -- you can't just roll out of bed and be out there. (Laughter.) So that kind of stuff can be a little tough.

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