Word: pranksterism
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Pickens arrived at Texas A&M in 1947 on a basketball scholarship but with no clear idea of what he wanted to do in life. Teammates remember him as a prankster who liked to throw bags of water from hotel rooms during road trips. When a broken elbow cost Pickens his athletic scholarship, he switched to Oklahoma State for his sophomore year. While there, he married Lynn O'Brien, his high school sweetheart. She was 17, he 20. "My mother says she never saw anyone grow up so fast," Pickens recalls. After two years on the dean's list...
Lessing, 64, author of such works as The Golden Notebook and Briefing for a Descent into Hell, is one of the most serious and protean writers in the world. Why did she stop at the height of her career to play the prankster? Her intent, as she explains in the preface to an upcoming one-volume paperback edition of the Somers novels, was partly to show how difficult it is for the work of unknown authors to attract wide attention. On a more personal level, she wanted to twit the critics who have insisted on pigeonholing her: first...
...years ago Vince Fuller, a clean-cut C.M.U. junior known then as a computer prankster, used his terminal to sneak into Columbia University's computer system via an electronic link between the two schools. He could have damaged Columbia's main computer by exploiting a "bug," or error, in the operating system, but instead he quickly notified authorities of the problem. Two months ago a more diabolical hacker broke into C.M.U.'s DEC-20 system and misused an authorization code to destroy student, faculty and researcher files. It took university programmers 23 hours to restore the lost...
This is a letter of thanks to Robert Coles. It was prompted by the insensitive parody that was done of him in his Tuesday lecture. However, I want to say at the outset that, although my first reaction to this incident was rage at the prankster. I am not writing this letter to criticize either him or the Lampoon. It would have been impossible for anyone to foretell just how inappropriate the interruption would be, and in any case they have apologized...
...ruined it. The rivets: they used to be fun. Decoying the runners into stopping at first base, when I knew that the ball was a double. I loved pretending it was a home run and then catching it for an out." Players know Yastrzemski as a joker and prankster but more noticeable than humor is intensity. It burns in his eyes...