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...pedals - and he hates the casual good cheer she brings into the claustrophobic car they are obliged to share, and above all he despises himself for being drawn to her. We know that eventually he's going to flame out disastrously, but the suspense we feel as we wait for that to happen is exquisite - funny to observe, perhaps, but discomfiting (and dangerous) as well...
Humorist Roy Blount Jr. is one of America's most prolific authors and a regular panelist on NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. His latest book, Alphabet Juice is quasi dictionary/glossary of the English language, peppered with literary references, cultural oddities and hilarious musings on why we choose the words we do. TIME talked to Blount about the most literary band in America, why he advises investing $20,000 in mass transit and what Sarah Palin might mean for the future of politics...
...parts of the country because he exudes calm and it doesn't seem like a fake calm. He walks along like a person who's not in a hurry and that's sort of Southern. He doesn't have any Southern roots at all, but we had him on Wait, Wait (in 1995) and he was really funny. I tend to think that anybody's who's funny is part Southern...
...finance ministers at least came to a rhetorical agreement to prop up "system-relevant" banks. But which are they, and how many billions does Europe have to deploy? We'll cross that bridge when we get there, the ministers mumbled; meanwhile, we'll wait for the E.U.'s summit on Oct. 15. Share prices, of course, did not wait to plunge even further...
...demand and say they are eager to negotiate, raising hope that the two-week standoff over the MV Faina will be resolved in a few days. If they're true to their word and the ship is released, the pirates will disappear back into the stew of Somalia and wait for their next opportunity...