Word: rest
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...motivation to write: "I run, a lot of the time, on mental energy, which is my alternative fuel. My body's always screaming for a rest, and my mind's always screaming, 'Go, go, go!' And I need - I get a lot of my impetus from the fact that I've got so much to write. I've got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets." (The Guardian, Sept...
...fame: from playing music in Toronto strip clubs to joining the original Saturday Night Live band and cast in the '70s - and along the way co-composing the Weather Girls' hit "It's Raining Men" and starring in a short-lived sitcom. His memoir, We'll Be Here the Rest of Our Lives, is chock-full of tales from the 59-year-old's show-business days. Shaffer spoke with TIME about being a struggling musician, the perils of late-night TV and why he can't discuss Letterman's personal life - even as Letterman himself can't seem...
...playing clubs in Toronto, did you feel like you had made it? Even though I was working in this strip club, [I felt like] I'd made it to some degree. But I was kind of depressed. It felt like I was going to be doing that for the rest of my life. And basically I am. I think that the title [of the book] is a little philosophical, in that I am basically doing that kind of work. I'm doing a five-night-a-week lounge gig. I just do it for David Letterman...
With its largest lead of the season, Leone decided to give playing time to the rest of the Harvard squad
...bright sparks remain. Local elections for Afghanistan's 34 provincial councils, which have been all but overshadowed by the presidential race, have produced results that prove that Afghans not only wholeheartedly support the idea of democracy, but also that they are far more liberal and progressive than the rest of the world might suspect. Tarana, dressed in slim black trousers under a tight black coat accented with a flashy silver headscarf, compares herself with her bearded, conservative predecessors on the council. "Afghans are not like what you hear from other countries, that they are religious and strict," she says...