Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hour approaches midnight on the campus of Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, but in Wean Hall, C.M.U.'s computer center, it might as well be high noon. On the fifth floor, two dozen undergraduates pound computer terminal keyboards, complete class assignments or work on research projects. In a glass-walled room two floors below, 20 students are seated at terminals. Down the hall from them, in a large room known as the SPICE rack (for a project called the Scientific Personal Interactive Computing Environment), several young men and women tap away on Wean Hall's most sophisticated machines...
...Brother has arrived a year early, in the form of a lithe young dancer from Pittsburgh. From every electronic orifice in the U.S. just now-from radio and stereo speakers, from the projectors in 1,140 movie theaters and out of the 24-hour mouth of MTV-comes one unavoidable, irresistible message: Flashdance...
...first two weeks of its release, the movie Flashdance, an airheaded $8.5 million romance about a pretty Pittsburgh welder, earned $11.3 million and, more remarkably, for Paramount Pictures, improved its business the second week. The Flashdance LP, with ten songs from the film's nonstop pop-rock score, has sold 700,000 copies in two weeks, and is now moving off the shelves at the rate of 50,000 to 100,000 a day-welcome news to a music business that has been in a four-year slump. Says Jack Kiernan, executive vice president of lucky PolyGram records...
...Francisco 3, Pittsburgh...
...Pittsburgh 3, San Francisco...