[SUNDAY PROFILE] Studs Terkel spins a good yarn

But Terkel is not living in the past. He follows the news closely and reads constantly. Like most Chicagoans, he's backing Obama in the Democratic primaries. However, like everyone else, he has his blind spots. At a New York dinner party for Dennis Kucinich, the left-wing Democratic presidential hopeful four years ago, Terkel rose to make a toast. "I didn't know who Kucinich was until a few months ago," he confessed. "But then I didn't know who Britney Spears was until a few months ago either."