Word: houseguest
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...Beautifully printed using a brick-colored ink on soft, matte, off-white paper, the lines are razor sharp. Some contributors also use a single highlight color of pink or blue or yellow. The mono-named Jason begins the book with a simply-drawn parable of death as a lonely houseguest whose hosts keep dying. Following that are a variety of humorous, often open-ended stories by Brian Biggs, Megan Kelso, Paul Pope and about twenty others. Each of the smaller books contains a single story, one by Jordan Crane, the other, wordless, by Kurt Wolfgang...
...walls of Tehmina Durrani's baronial home in Lahore, the cultural capital of Pakistan, are lined with both mirrors and Durrani's own cool-hued paintings of women flying, dancing, sleeping, gazing dreamily?lovely nudes in ethereal settings. Four months ago, a strange houseguest started drifting uncertainly through the elegant rooms, her head and face shrouded by a dark brown head-scarf. She stared at the paintings but took pains to avoid all those mirrors, explaining that she was afraid of herself...
...current administration needs to sit down, take a good hard look at the Carter-Ford recommendations, and then, in public policy terms, "implement" (i.e. ignore) those suggestions while slowly introducing their own, fail-safe incentives. That way, everyone?s happy: The voters, who?ve gained a dollar/a soda/a houseguest; the politicians, who enjoy a newfound rush of popularity; and, of course, the ever-present spirit of our founding fathers, who will look down on us and smile at what we?ve managed to accomplish...
...houseguest asks, "What does it mean when there's blood on the moon...
...essayist E.B. White, then residing, as he had for 50 years, on a saltwater farm along the coast of Maine. I was sure White would welcome the visit--after all, I reasoned, what ailing octogenarian writer doesn't long for the company of an unemployed 20-year-old houseguest with no visible means of support and no reason to leave?--but just as a courtesy, I decided to send him notice of my arrival. Already I had in hand a friendly letter from White, written a year or two before in answer to a fan letter I'd sent...