European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Bestseller fiction 1 3 4 the Plains of passage by Jean m. Auel last week 1 weeks on list 13. A four past Midnight by Stephen King last week 2 weeks on list 18 dazzle by  last week 6 weeks on list 7 the witching hour by Anne Rice last week 3 weeks on list. 10 5 Polar express by Chris Vanallsburg last week 4 weeks a on list 30 a. A. 5 memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon last week 5 weeks on list 21 7 Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton last week 7 weeks on list 7 8 the Burden of proof by Scott Turow last week 8 weeks on list 31. A. A 9 the secret Pilgrim by John be carr6 first week on list 10 the stand by Stephen King last week 11 weeks on list 33 a a 1 1 non fiction 4 5 a life on the Road by Charles Kuralt last week 1 weeks on list 9 \. A a the civil War by Geoffrey c. Ward with rec Burns and Ken Burns last week 2  list 14 a to knows to by to Jackson and Dick Schaap last week 3 weeks on list 9 a. Iron John by Robert Bly last week 6 weeks on list 8 All i really Neeff to know i Learned in kindergarten by Robert Fulghum last week 5 weeks on list 9 6 Millie s Book As dictated to Barbara Bush last week 4 weeks on list 16. 7 the cat and the curmudgeon by Cleveland Amory last. Week 7 weeks on list 13 a. 8 get to the heart by Barbara Mandrell with  last week 9 weeks on list 16. 9 an american life by Ronald Reagan last week 8 = weeks on list 7. 10 it was on fire when i Lay Down by Robert Fulghum last week 12 weeks on list 53 a a a paperback fiction dances with wolves by. Michael Blake weeks on list -5. Misery by Stephen King weeks on list 21. A the Bonfire of the vanities by Tom Wolfe weeks on. List 35 a v. Foucault a pendulum by Umberto eco weeks on list 5 the bad place by Dean r. Koontz weeks on list 8 the dark half by Stephen King weeks on list 16 talking god by Tony Hillerman weeks on list 3 8 daddy by Danielle steel weeks on list 13. 9 mystery by Peter Straub first week on list 10. Reasonable doubt by Philip Friedman weeks on list. �?�12 a a a a a a a a a a a a. A. 2 3 4 5 6 7non-fiction1 All i really need to know i Learned in kindergarten _ by Robert Fulghum weeks on list 60 Quot Quot a Quot 2 the cat who came for Christmas by Cleveland Amory. Weeks on list. 27 a. A. 3 the cuckoos egg by Cliff Stoll weeks on list 7 a4 from Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas l. Friedman. Weeks on list 22. 5 the Road less travelled by m. Scott Peck weeks on list 376 a 6 new kids on the Block by Lynn Goldsmith weeks on list 7. A a a. _. A 7 a Brief history of time by Stephen hawking weeks on list. 318 liar s poker by Michael Lewis weeks on list 16 9 education of a wandering Man by Louis la amour a. Weeks on list 6. A a 10 the Road from Coo rain by Jill Ker Conway weeks on. List. 18.a paperback miscellaneous 1 All i need to know i Learned from my cat by Suzy Becker weeks on list 7. 2 the authoritative Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Walterson weeks on list 16. A .3 the world almanac and Book of facts 1991 weeks on list 4. A. A. 4. Weiner dog Art by Gary Larson weeks on list 10 5 the Quot late night with David Letterman Book of top ten lists by David Letterman Steve o Donnell it at. A weeks on list 12a compiled by the new Yor Timos a. Stars and stripes Best Sellers fiction 1 the Plains of passage by Jean m. Auel. 2 four past Midnight by Stephen King. 3 the witching hour by Anne Rice 4 lady Boss by Jackie Collins a 5 memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon 6 Longshot by Dick Francis a.7 Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. A. 8 the secret Pilgrim by John be Carre a 9 the general in his labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 10 message from Nam by Danielle steel non fiction a a %. A a a. A a ,1 to knows to by to Jackson and Dick schaap2 the cat and the curmudgeon by Cleveland Amory 3 by Way of deception by Victor Ostrovsky. A 4 get to the heart by Barbara Mandrell with George Vecsey 5 Millie s Book As dictated to Barbara Bush 6 Power shift by Alvin Toffler 7 Homecoming by John Bradshaw. 8 the great Waldo search by Martin Handford 9 darkness visible by William. Styron 10 Trump surviving at the top by Donald Trump with Charles Leerhsen. Trump tops worst Sellers books about Donald Trump and the Simpsons topped a Bookstore chains list of worst Sellers during the Holiday shopping season. The Village Green Bookstore inc., a Bookstore Chain based in Rochester n.y., said the latest offering by the deflated multimillionaire a Trump a surviving at the top a was at the top of its worst seller list. Quot a a it was a bomb a said spokesman Jessie Laze Roff. A people Don t want to read about him any More. Right behind Trumps Book on the Dud list is a the Simpsons Xmas Book a a Holiday offering about the animated to family. A we have piles of the books just sitting Here Quot Lazeroff lamented. Also on the worst seller list were a pilgrimage a a Saga of James Mich Ncry a journey to Poland and Rome in 1988 former president Reagan so an american life a which the Bookstore Calls a perhaps the most expensive bomb of the year a and a songs of the doomed by Hunter s. Thompson w Hose a a gonzo journalism was a big hit in the 1970s but apparently Isnit translating into the 1990s. United press International. Digging up the roots of Slang phrases William Safire new York times <3 i to a often hard to track the origin of popu Jar phrases that everyone understands but no one knows How t hey came to be. Take this article from the new York times a if the lines Between children s television and the Federal government arc blurred. And if people get the government they deserve Are we All Mickey mouse a How did a Mickey mouse become to be used As a Slang adjective with a meaning ranging from a Cocka Mamick to a rudimentary Quot to a a unsophisticated the Oxford English dictionary defines the americanism As a something Small insignificant or worthless a but that misses the nuance of dismaying oversimplification. The cartoon character with the alliterative name was created by Walt Disney in the late 1920s, and George Orwell turned the name into an adjective in 1936, writing of a a sort of Mickey mouse universe where things and people done to have to obey the rules of space and  to get the answer from the mouse a Mouth about the source for the current sense of Simplis 1 shot a query to Dave Smith the archivist for Disney studios in Burbank Calif. A car Natch who worked on our educational films during world War ii had an explanation a said mickeys historian. A the said the government once sent its accountants to the studio and they were dismayed by the Way we kept the books a they found overhead charges for the office in new York scribbled notes that sort of thing. One of the accountants exclaimed a what a Mickey mouse Way of bookkeeping a and that show that sense of the phrase was  another Odd phrase is this one from a headline in the Philadelphia daily news a sex prosecutors plea stalemated followed by the subhead a a won to dime drug using pals feds say.�?�. A a. What is the meaning of a a dime As a verb a since pay phones required to cents per Call for Many years a explains Francis j. Hanssens jr., a Philadelphia Denizen a the phrase to drop a dime on came to mean a to inform  the daily news apparently believes that even standing alone a dime can he used in that  i Salute the headline writer its Good to see a colourful bit of Slang hang in there in the face of inflation. A to Stop on a dime is still Wilh us because the 10-cent Coin is our smallest and the phrase Means a to Stop Short however the a dime store Quot or a five and dime a is old Slang. So is a the dime dropped a since it now takes More than that to make the dial tone come on but it s still Worth using. And if anybody wants to Call to complains about this ill hit him with really old Slang a a it a your  Jafim 13. 1991 c a i n a a o Kyj sub in plug a c Page 1/