European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 18, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Bestseller fiction t the Plains of passage by Jean m. Auel last week 1 weeks on list 5 2 the witching hour by Anne Rice last week 2 weeks on list 2 3 Longshot by Dick Francis last week 5 weeks on list i 4 four past Midnight by Stephen King last week 3 weeks on list 10. 5 lady Boss by Jackie Collins last week 4 weeks on list 7 6 memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon last week 6weeks on list 13. 7 the Ruby Knight by David Eddings first week on list 8 the Burden of proof by Scott Turow last week 12 weeks on list 23 9 the first Man in Rome by Colleen Mccullough last week 8 weeks on list 5 10 Buffalo girls by Larry Mcmurtry last week 7 wee son list 5 non fiction 1 the civil War by Geoffrey c. Ward with Ric Burns and Ken Burns last week 1 weeks on list 6 2 Millie a Book As dictated to Barbara Bush last week 3 weeks on list 8 3 byway of deception by Victor Ostrovsky and Claire Hoy last week 2 weeks on list 8 4 get to the heart by Barbara Mandrell with George Vecsey last week 4 weeks on list 9 5 you just done to understand by Deborah Tannen last week 5 wee son list 16 6 the cat and the curmudgeon by Cleveland armory Las week 6weeksonfist 5 7 Power soft Jim Alvin Toffler last week 12 weeks on list 3 8 a life on the Road by Charles Kuralt first week on list 9 Fleetwood by Mick Fleetwood with Stephen Davis last week 15 weeks on list 4 10 Friday night lights by . Bissinger last week 7 weeks on list 7 paperback fiction t Dawn by . Andrews weeks on list 3 2 daddy by Danielle Steele weeks on list 5 3 reasonable doubt by Philip Friedman weeks on list 4 the dark half by Stephen King weeks on list 8 5 the captive by Victoria Holt weeks on list 4 6 sorceress of Dar Shiva by David Eddings weeks on list 3. 7 the great and secret show by Clive Barker first week on list b exiles by Howard Weinstein weeks on list 2 9 postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher weeks on list 8 10 of econ one by Joe Weber weeks on list 2 paperback non-fiction1 All i really need to know i Learned in kindergarten by Robert Fulghum weeks on list 52 2 the Road less travelled by m. Scott Peck weeks on list 369 3 liars poker by Michael Lewis weeks on list 8 4 High treason by Robert j. Groden and Harrison toward Livingstone weeks on list 3 5 a Brief history of time by Stephen w. Hawking weeks on list 24 6 from Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas a Friedman weeks on list 14 a 7 Henry and june by anal Nin weeks on list 1 8 the Road from Coo rain by Jill Ker Conway weeks on list 10 9 my turn by Nancy Reagan first week on list 10 among schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder weeks on list 10 paperback miscellaneous 1 the authoritative Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson weeks on list 8 2 Weiner dog Art by Gary Larson weeks on list 2 3 the Quot late night with David Letterman top ten lists by David Letterman Steve of Donnell it Al weeks on list 4 4 codependent no More by Melody Beattie weeks on list 115 5 the old Farmers almanac 1991 Yankee publishing weeks on list 4 complied by the new York time stars and stripes Best Sellers fiction1 Plains of passage by Jean m. Auel2 four past Midnight by Stephen King 3 lady Boss by Jackie collins4 memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon 5 the stand by Stephen King g Star trek prime directive by Judith and Garfield Reeves Stevens 7 message from Nam by Danielle steel 8 Rowan by Anne Mcgaffrey 9 under siege by Stephen Coontz 10 the bad place by Dean Koontz non fiction 1 by Way of deception by Victor ostrovsky2 the cat and the curmudgeon by Cleveland armory 3 Millie a Book As dictated to Barbara Bush 4 darkness visible by William Styron 5 Trump surviving at the top by Donald Trump with Charles leerhsen6 Groat Waldo search by Martin Handford 7 peril and Promise by John chancellor8 you just done to understand by Deborah Tannen 9 bootleggers boy by Barry Switzer with Bud Shrake 10 the politics of the Rich and poor by Kenneth Phillip James j. Kilpatrick Universal press Syndicate you May have heard me deliver this lecture before but you Haven to heard it recently. Meanwhile you have forgotten an admonition you should have taken to heart. Today s reminder one More time is Don t use foreign words or phrases unless you Are certain you have them right. Obedience to this common sense Rute would have saved a Denver headline writer some embarrassment last May. The associated press. Had provided a Story on the startling defeats suffered by Tennis stars Stefan Edburg and Boris Becker in the French open. They were eliminated by relatively unknown players in the very first round. Headline in the Denver Post Quot Edberg Becker bid Bonjour in  Bonjour a arg Edberg and Becker did no to bid Paris hello Good morning or Good Day. They were saying goodbye for heaven s Sake. If the copy editor were determined to French Ify his headline he needed Adieu or a Rivoir or amp Bien Tot. A Why do we show off our bad French beats me but it happens All the time. A food writer in the Portland oregonian undertook to describe a Cassata cake. It is Quot an amazing menage of amaretto Sweet Mascar Pone cheese and dark chocolate  menage nonsense a menage is a household. Idiomatic ally it is a relationship of husband wife and husbands mistress or alternatively husband wife and wife a Lover. The last time i saw manage so mangled was when a baseball writer was discussing a three Way Trade that involved players from Baltimore Boston and new York or some such american league combination. He described it As a manage a trois mercy the Portland writer wanted melange. But that is nothing compared to one of the most popular mangling of a French phrase. Last year a computer service ranked the National football league teams at mid season. As the Denver Post explained things operators a fed various numbers into its trusty computer and Viola the Broncos wound up As the leagues top ranked  Viola the spelling was closer to the Mark than the spelling in the Seguin Texas Gazette Enterprise in july. There a writer turned in a fight piece on her doleful experience in trying to do some Light Home construction. She and her Mother did their Best but the nails were too Long and their skills were too Little. Then came a Rescue Quot after we had called it quits and my brother took Over Wallah Shorter nails suddenly  of so voila sounds like a Wallah a but maybe a simple a a hallelujah would have sufficed. Or perhaps a behold a or even a a what Dyak now a or anything else in English. November 18,1990 sunday to plus c