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...place competitive colleges search for signs of genuine commitment is in extracurricular activities. For many students and their parents, extracurricular activities are a kind of flavor enhancer to sprinkle on a resume: a dash of music, a pinch of poetry club, a soupcon of athletics. But what folks like Kinnally know is that a meaty involvement with any of these activities builds valuable traits like persistence, leadership and the ability to work in teams...
...Already Dead (HarperCollins; 435 pages; $25) looks very much like Johnson's bid to hit the charts, with a bullet. Subtitled A California Gothic, a phrase that some may find redundant, this new novel offers just about everything that thriller buyers look for: drugs, booze, sex, murderous violence, a soupcon of the supernatural and a large cast of enterprising psychopaths...
Maybe it was because I came into the show with just a soupcon of animosity for all-white, all-male things. Maybe it was because I had far more laughs watching "Carrotblanca" at the Brattle Theater the night before. Or maybe it was because the show just plain stank...
Unsurprisingly, many of these episodes must have meant more to a sixty-something Fellini in 1980 than to the average contemporary movie-goer. The vision of tightly tank-topped biker chicks possessed by a rock and roll frenzy looks more comic than frightening. The faint soupcon of lesbianism seems a little timid and fastidious by today's standards...
...rate root-canal work done by a student at a dental-school clinic. But a growing cadre of frugal gourmets from Montpelier to San Francisco is finding that meals in culinary-school restaurants can be very tasty deals indeed. A senior's sauce may need a soupcon of salt, or a nervous freshman waiter may tip over your water goblet, but for the most part, cooking-school eateries provide an interesting ambience and fine cuisine at half the price of the four-star restaurant just up the street...