Word: spiced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...MacLachlan, 20, wears faded jeans, a plaid shirt and a blue headband to keep his flowing blond hair at bay. He is barefoot. On this night he is running through the SPICE program on a $70,000 Symbolics LM2 computer. The project's goal: to provide a network (a group of interconnected computers) with almost unlimited memory and computation power. He also uses the terminal to play games-Star Wars, Splines and Worm-devised by students and faculty members at C.M.U. and other schools...
...Large, 21, and Skef Wholey, 19, are SPICE rack regulars along with MacLachlan. Like most hard-core hackers, they do not think much about graduation or life after college: all that seems incidental to the computer experience. They generally study, work and talk in the SPICE rack, and when they go out for food, their choice of eatery is understood and unvarying: Jimmy Tsang's Chinese restaurant in Shadyside. Any suggestion that hacking is the least bit odd makes them bridle. Says Large: "Hacking just means doing something with enthusiasm. I know more about farming than the average person...
...marauding violence. When Johnny (Ralph Macchio) sleepily confides. "I think I like it better when the old man's hittin' me at least he knows I'm there," the line is both gut-wrenching and believable. With desolation a staple, a bit of fisticuffs and a dangerous chase add spice...
There are a few products that have an unmistakably masculine identity: Old Spice cologne and Bull Durham pipe tobacco, for example. Another is Jockey briefs. Thus an unsuspecting shopper who picks up the newest pair of Jockeys might be startled to find briefs that sport a daintily sculpted waistband and distinctly feminine styling. Another symbol of macho marketing has fallen...