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...playwright. With the holiday-travel season upon us, there are ample opportunities to annoy friends and family with burdensome visits. For that reason, TIME checked in with two experts, Letitia Baldrige and Peter Post--both out with new etiquette books--for advice on how to be a well-mannered houseguest...
Brian Wells' goals in life didn't seem to extend much beyond finding the address for his next pizza delivery. He was a solitary man whose only regular houseguest was his mom, with whom he shared Sunday steak dinners. He was so reluctant about calling attention to himself that he had the hubcaps removed from his car because they were too flashy. He cared for three cats that he simply called Kitty. And every morning for five years, as regular as clock hands, he waved the same unsmiling hello to the clerks in the health-food shop next to Mama...
...houseguest was told to make his bed under the stars because the power had gone out and it was too hot inside without air conditioning. From the rooftop balcony of the two-story house in northern Tikrit where he sought refuge early last week, Abid Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti, the fourth-most-wanted man in Iraq, had a panorama on a life come undone. To the south he could make out the sprawling family farmlands where he used to spend weekends with his boss and cousin, Saddam Hussein. A few miles up the road stood the ex-regime's garish...
...spring. But for Valdez and many other new mothers, that will be too late. Valdez doesn't know whom to blame--doctors, lawyers or insurance companies. She just knows that come late July, she will have to spend the final, awkward week of her pregnancy waddling around as a houseguest. That's enough to make anyone feel homesick. --By Leslie Berestein
...beak wearing a jacket and hat from the 1950s. The stories mix reality with nonsense, and humor with sadness. One episode has the bird-man followed around by a skeleton no one else can see. Unable to ditch the specter of death, bird-man accepts him as a houseguest, sharing his snacks and bathroom. When bird-man suddenly dies, killed by a meteorite falling on top of him, death seeks out a new friend who will undoubtedly die soon. The sad and lonely life of Death's Specter typifies the dark humor and vague allegory of these stories. Another episode...