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Stacks of loudspeakers framed the stage like the barricades of a medieval fortress. On the floor lay a magnificent tangle of wires and cables. On the stage apron, like Buddha contemplating his navel, sat a giant electronic console glorying in its own inputs, modules and mixers. Visitors to the 2,006-seat Zellerbach Auditorium at the Berkeley campus of the University of California last week could be forgiven for thinking that they were about to hear the rock concert to end all rock concerts...
...with the same complexity of plot and wild comedy that filled The Sot-Weed Factor. Giles Goat-Boy is the tale of George Giles, Everyhero, the offspring of a virgin and a computer, who sets out to save the world in a quest that recalls Jesus, Moses, Oedipus and Buddha, to name...
...calendar designed for women was conceived by two California women, Freelance Photographer Judy Horst and Advertising Production Manager Christine Hopf. Impressed by the frenzied reaction to Actor Burt Reynolds' nude portrait in the April issue of Cosmopolitan, they formed Bo-Tree Productions (named for the tree under which Buddha sat when he received enlightenment), and with the help of friends began recruiting comely male sex objects...
...Duncan's career, recently popularized by Vanessa Redgrave--the erratic public acceptance of her work, the flamboyance of her marriages and the tragedies of her children's deaths and her own. And finally, Douglas Day helps to debunk the image of Gertrude Stein as blue-stocking and "great Jewish Buddha," by quoting Braque's comment that "Miss Stein understood nothing of what went on around her." Admitting that this judgment may be too harsh. Day concludes that Stein was an intelligent and lucky opportunist, "clever enough to make herself indispensable to those at the center...
...more than four years, the Bank of Korea has sought a design for its forthcoming 10,000-won ($25) note that would symbolize Korea's cultural heritage. The bank recently released pictures of its choice: an engraving of a sitting Buddha on one side and a famous Buddhist temple on the other. "Discrimination," howled South Korea's 2.5 million Christians, 2 million Confucianists and 1.5 million members of splinter sects. The Christians charged that the design violated the spirit of a law prohibiting a state religion. Most offended of all, however, were the nation's 4 million...