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Rock fans may find it shocking, but Frank Zappa, 43, the bent mind behind Weasels Ripped My Flesh and Valley Girl, has gone legit. This week California's Berkeley Symphony Orchestra performs the world premiere of A Zappa Affair, a program of four short ballets. Zappa may have jettisoned the synthesizers and electric guitars, but he has kept his famous sense of the absurd. The ballets-titled Moe 'n' Herb's Vacation, Sinister Footwear, Bob in Dacron and Sad Jane-are performed by giant puppets attached to live performers. "There are a lot of things...
Mark Metcalf, 35, of Berkeley, Calif., endured weeks of pain that "felt like I had a hot iron held against the side of my neck," and he found himself "considering suicide as a rational alternative." Every year a number of the chronically suffering make that choice. Pain, said Albert Schweitzer, "is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death himself...
...with the feelings of euphoria surrounding the ruggers' robbery of the title away from UC-Berkeley--which had won the first three titles since the national tourney was conceived--still in the air, the squad's initial feelings of neglect by the Athletic Department seem to be subsiding...
...question is how so many of us came to regard the University as evil why students literally around the world at Berkeley. Columbia and Harvard, in Paris, Berlin and Italy, felt such bitterness at their universities that they were willing to immolate them in protest...
...Berkeley, Calif...