EVERY Thursday afternoon two scores ago, a pack of students from the University of the Philippines in Diliman would jump on a bus and roar off to the cheap restaurants of Cubao or Quiapo. On Fridays, when they also finished classes early, the students would catch the second-run shows in the movie houses of Cubao, where a double feature cost only 60 centavos, or half the peso and twenty for a new movie. Sometimes they would have money left for a burger.