In an effort to mimic the soft exterior of a real bed, Mr. Fischer coated one of the bed sculptures with white paint but then interrupted the smooth surface by pouring a pile of real concrete over it, weighing down one side of the sculpture's surface.

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It comprised a cot bed in a clean, white-washed cell up under the eves and adjacent to a big balcony that looked out onto the street and across the city's dark tempestuous night.

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He raised a gothic menagerie: hundreds of snakes, a crow, and white rats that he sometimes snuggled with in bed.

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At home she shares a single bed with her mother, a domestic worker for a white family.

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She said Ms White had told one junior doctor not to examine the abdomen of a patient because she needed the bed.

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It seemed to be covered in brilliant white laundry but as it trundled past me I saw a grossly swollen head sticking out of the bed sheets.

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All have been individually decorated, so it is impossible to generalize, but ours came with cream walls, bleached wooden floors covered by sisal matting, wicker screens, a four-poster king-size bed, wingback armchairs, a large writing desk, dramatic framed black-and-white photography and decoration that ranged from traditional African sculptures to a tower of Louis Vuitton steamer trunks.

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He had no bed frame, nothing hung on the walls, and in his bathroom there was just a single white towel and a T.

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