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...spindleshanks spoiled what might have been his best season, stranding him on the bench for a third of the year. At 37, Yogi Berra could only manage a .222 average, and 1961's bullpen ace, Luis Arroyo, spent most of the year with his arm in a whirlpool bath...
...lonesco's Rhinoceros-the battle for individuality is worth fighting against any odds. When Big Mac was published in Yugoslavia, orthodox critics and even Kos's admirers agreed that he had perhaps gone too far. Only the madness that eventually spills Hero Rade into the warm bath of martyrdom's delusion -the "devoted ecstasy," Kos calls it-spares Yugoslavian society the full weight of Big Mac's lesson. If the man apart is slightly mad, society sheds some blame...
...house of all is the exquisite Petit Trianon, begun by Louis XV for his mistress. Madame de Pompadour, and elaborated by Louis XVI's wife, Marie Antoinette. From the punkah-hung summer bungalows of Darjeeling to the marble "cottages" of 19th century Newport (where a four-bedroom, two-bath apartment has been fitted into what was once a dining room), most of the rich have had at least a second*#151;and often a third, fourth or fifth-house to live...
...Yorker who yearns to fancy himself in the great tepidarium (warm room) of an ancient Roman bath need go no further than Pennsylvania Station: its main waiting room is almost a duplicate of the hall of the old Baths of Caracalla. The station also has a classical colonnaded facade, broad and elegant staircases, a huge, skylighted concourse with vaulting arches of lacy steel and glass. It smells of past grandeur and wars and old steam and tears and waitin'-for-the-train-to-come-in. All this is going to be torn down because it no longer makes economic...
...them 2,500 years ago, the inhabitants of the sun-scorched Cyclades Islands off Greece have led a parched existence. This summer some of the Cyclades are looking positively green. On the island of Hydra a resort hotel that closed two years ago because tourists got tired of going bath-less has now reopened with baths aplenty. Water, which once cost $1.40 a ton in the Cyclades, is now selling...