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...Mets are one of the few sports teams worthy of mania; a little genuine insanity in New York this week could hand them the Series. They stole one before--who's to stay they can't do it again...
...still bring an audience to tears with his blend of drama and poetry. But in the early years of the century he was a Casanova in tails. His seemingly endless list of courtships had begun in his native Poland with a twelve-year-old girl, appropriately named Mania (he was ten at the time). Then came a staggering array of flirtations and affairs...
...thing with me, and Sha Na Na is a special brand of rock and roll. Or so I'd been told. Nearly 5000 people packed the MIT Field House to see Sha Na Na and nearly every one of them was excited about the possibility of recapturing that oldies mania. The concert was, after all, a second coming. Well, it didn't quite work out that way. On Friday night, Sha Na Na was good, but nothing to break your date at the soda shop for. The group displayed a polished -- if mechanical -- mastery of that amorphous brand of Fifties...
Each spring Paris goes a bit mad as it tries to tell the world's women what to wear the following fall and winter. Last week thousands of buyers, retailing executives and journalists turned up for the pret-a-porter (ready-to-wear) shows and found the usual mania. A tightrope walker equiliberated over the crowd jammed into the Commercial Stock Exchange, where a big show was taking place. At Designer Vicky Tiel's "New Tango in Paris" exhibit, dancing models plucked partners from the audience for a whirl around the floor. As always, the gendarmes had crowd...
...planes and trains, of course, are not only for business. Strasbourgers share the mania for seeing Europe first -even in winter. Many families are spending some of the gray days of February and March on tours. Four days in Rome are offered for $60, Athens for $100. Even for those who do not travel, Europe is in evidence. In Strasbourg's new suburban supermarkets, shoppers pick their way through oranges from Spain, smoked bacon from the Black Forest, mortadella from Bologna, gingersnaps from England and coffee-flavored hopjes from Holland...