European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes july daily Magazine an alternative bestseller listing by Ellen Goodman a very i find myself compelled probably by some natural homing instinct in the general direction of i he bestseller although i manage to resist the impulse to read most of what takes its place i find great pleasure in just Reading the this for they have Given me a great idea for a composite blockbuster that i Hope to see in the stores for the summer of it is a novel starring five members of the Yale class of 1961 whose bodies begin mysteriously wasting away while they Are on a submarine being chased by the my nonfiction Compo site is an autobiography of the daughter of a movie Star who overcame her childhood misery by a passion for and Rose to head a major american Auto Mobile company while making foolish choices in but while we await the publication of these surefire i would like to offer once again As a Public service on my own entirely eccentric summer Reading it consists of what this one Reader enjoyed Over the past 12 a novel for those who like to have their psycho logical jitters in Black and Don Delillo White noise captures something about modern character and modern dread in a Book about a a famous Hitler scholar at a whose town experiences an airborne toxic Delillo sense of place is fluid and several of the other novels that make this list Are much More the first of the Beans of is set in the poverty pocket of Rural among people who live behind the the a first by Carolyn has become a poverty hic Ann Beatties world is Vermont among the pos Post 60s crowd still playing in the 80s they dont know whether love always the title of the Book a Promise or just an i have always wanted to shake Battic characters out of their but there is a momentum and energizing humor in this the catalyst of the aging hippie Dom is a 14yearold soap opera Star who represents the younger a girl so unemotional that she regards Friendship As a dated the finishing school is not exactly a its More like a meeting ground for an adolescent girl and a woman she finds dramatic and this Friend delicately described by Gail another regu Lar on this is the framework for a mystery about adoration and Erica Jongs new Book is neither delicate nor a by her novels All carry the word erotic on the although perhaps narcissistic is More this Reader actually began flipping through the dirty part of parachutes and kisses to get to the but if you Are hooked on Isadora the Book is a Beac Blanket the Only family Saga that makes this list As opposed to the other list is the foreign wonder tale of Isabel Al lenses the House of the i began Reading it because she is the Niece of the former president of Chile and finished it because she tells a Fine evoking South american politics and mystery in lives of the a his mystical wife and their in the nonfiction i would tout two books one is Jerry pagans Book the nature of the which makes sense out of the morass of child psychology Litera it int easy but then figuring out what makes one child different from another int the key is not Only the experience of the but More the Way he or she interprets that pagans Book is probably Good instruction to the Sec Ond what i regard As the big sociology Book of the habits of the it was written by an Aca Demic gang of five but its readable anyway who asked adult americans How they interpret the experiences of their own the questions they raise have to do with individualism and this was a bumper crop year for Short Story Grace Paley later the same Day is everything that her fans could Hope Mavis gallants collection digs into the Canadian soil for stories about bilingual and Bicu Tural the newcomer in the Short Story group is Lorrie whose self help is a collection of tales patterned to books How to be the other How to talk to your How to be a by some Miracle she avoids and Many of the pieces Are quite my sole entry in the Novella category is the hip Bright big its the 1980s version of the classic  Jay Mclnerney writes As if Hes on he has a deft very its the sort of writing that makes reviewers Well be hearing More from glob Washington Post reaching the Peak in word misuse by James kilpatr1ck a letter is at hand from Edith Feltz of her word is another letter comes from Trudy Mcvicker of round Lake her word is the two i can Tell have the souls of they Are in love with so with she started to use mundane in some thing she was but in the Back of her head was a Small stirring of her thought was that mundane has but one meaning she was sure the accent was on the first to her Aston she discovered that while mundane has the negative connotations she had attached to its first meaning is worldly As distinguished from heavenly or and the word can be accented on either with she read a review in the Chicago Sun times of a Book about the Book is a companion volume to a to series about China on the Public broadcasting said the reviewer after the series has viewers will still have a fungible reminder of what they have fungible reminder she looked it she found that american heritage and random House Are equally unintelligible being of such a nature or kind that one unit or part May be exchanged or substituted for another unit or equal part to discharge an if a writer for the Christian science Monitor had been blessed with the same he would not have Blun dered in april in a Story about a seed company that sent out samples of a new turnip Back came some of the most fulsome Praise for a vegetable that Thomas Ever the writer went on to quote some of the rave reviews Given the new he thought Ful some meant enthusiastic or warm or it on other matters those mischievous continue to bite at our prose like chiggers at our in the associated press Brown also is charged with speeding to allude at a meeting at the cascades Volcano Laboratory in about 300 people poured Over laser equipment and other in Phila a citizen wrote the inquirer to demand the Resig nation of a City commissioner for her Cavalier flaunting of the tax in the Post quoted a spokesman for the department of transportation on advertisements offering airline seats at a bulk rate we have seen these and they have peaked our once More for the record look things up we ought not to confuse allude and pour and flaunt and and Peak and and we wont mix them up if we will Only cultivate the writers sixth sense of something that not quite c Universal press a dramatic woksw1w i huh 50tha7hbmi6ht i k having any Gonna make today crossword across 1 4 huge Success 9 of la Mancha 12 Howard or Cochran 13 Sticky cake 14 Saluta Tion 15 strike a bargain 17 London suburb 18 gambling cube 19 Sweet hearts 21 devils 24 French seasons 25 Creek 26 pigs digs 28 facing Glacier direction 31 Clumsy boats 33 round about group 35 like a office by Eugene Sheffer 36 satisfies 58 cozy 38 doze off places 40 Samuels 59 stately 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