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TIME Senior Writer Walter Shapiro, who wrote this week's Nation story on the 1988 presidential campaign, brings more than a soupcon of seasoning to his duties as a political observer. Indeed, as a graduate student in history at the University of Michigan in 1972, Shapiro made up his mind to run for Congress himself. "I grew up reading that anyone could do it," Shapiro recalls. "So I decided to test what it would be like to run as someone who had a three-speed bike instead of a Volvo." He campaigned daily for six months, wearing out his only...
...Thanks for the soupcon of sarcasm, fella. But look at the alternative. Look at the fiction writers who are making it--they stink! Well, some of'em are all right. But they're not great! Where are the Faulkners of our generation? Smothered by mediocrity...
...that's not all the K-school student government has been up to lately, either. As part of its deal with Soupcon--the catering company that runs the happy hours--the student government has also started a designated driver program, so students who overindulge on cheap beer can get a safe ride home...
...line not as a primary force, but as a cinematic exoskeleton under which the filmmaker can pit dueling concepts of American culture against each other. His tools are the carcasses of TSF's past, and the eagle-eyed student can detect flairs of John Hughes' best absurdist work, a soupcon of Risky Business's self-knowing psychological slant on civilization and its discontents, and a brief but illuminating pillaging of Woody Allen's treasure trove of neuroses (cf: post-tennis scene with Diane Keaton on her terrace in Annie Hall...
...many goods and services aimed at Americans. The Hermes scarf that now costs "only" $70 in Paris was also about $70 three or four years ago, when the dollar was worth 5 francs instead of nearly 10. At $131, the cheapest room at the Plaza-Athenee is a soupcon higher than it was five years ago, although the rate for more expensive rooms is lower. The tourist traffic, though, is not strictly rational. To a passionate bargain hunter, squandering money is part of the fun. One Californian, Joanne Pearson, flew to France just to accompany her son home. Says...