But her career received a major boost with her starring role in "The Burning Bed, " a 1984 made-for-television movie co-starring Paul LeMat.

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The rescue of a rare bird from a "ferociously burning" reed bed has been described as being "like a scene from Thunderbirds" by a wildlife trust.

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As well as cutting up and burning the hose on an open fire, she washed and replaced bed covers in the room where her husband was poisoned.

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It was, I mean, that song just reminds me of Saturday mornings, cleaning up, getting laundry ready, making my bed, incense burning, house smelling fresh, sunshine through the window.

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Last year Nokia's Stephen Elop flung his company off what he described as a burning platform, putting the Finnish giant's Symbian operating system out to grass to get into bed with Microsoft's Windows Phone.

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Keep a pad of paper and pen by your bed, that way, when you wake up in the middle of the night with a burning question, you can write it down before you forget.

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