51.   A strange thing happened to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani last week.

52.   A still-shattered Gere is inexplicably drawn to Point Pleasant, W.Va., a remote rural town where, as the cliche goes, strange things are happening.

53.   A strange thing was happening.

54.   A strange thing, when you consider it.

55.   A strange thing happened at halftime of a Seahawk game in the Kingdome last fall.

56.   A strange thing happened this year during the annual Midnight Madness festivities at the University of Maryland.

57.   A strange thing is happening to these scandal docudramas lately, though.

58.   A strange thing it is to be a Negro, wrote James Baldwin.

59.   A strange thing happens to Schlichtmann as he works on the case.

60.   About the same time the ballyhoo around Stephon Marbury subsided to a dull roar, a strange thing happened at Georgia Tech.