European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Best be fiction1 the secret Pilgrim by John be Carre last week 1 weeks on list 3 a. A 2 the Plains of passage by Jean m. Auel last week 2. A weeks in list 15a a a a 3 cold fire by Dean r. Koontz first week on list a. 4 dazzle by Judith Krantz last week 5 weeks on list 9 5 the witching hour by Anne Bice. Last week 3 weeks in list 12a a. A. A a a a a 6 four past Midnight by Stephen King last week 4.weeks on list 20 v a a a. A to Quot a a 7 Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton last week 6 weeks. On list 9 a a. 8 Possession by a a. Byatt last week 9 weeks on list a �6 a a. 9 Battleground by . Griffin first week on list a. A. 10 vital signs by Robin Cook last week 12 weeks on list 2. A non fiction 1 Iron John by Robert Bly last week 2 weeks on list 10 a 1 the civil War by Geoffrey a Ward with Ric Burns and Ken Burns last week 3 weeks on list 16. A 3 a Lile on the Road by Charles Kuralt last week 1. Weeks on list 11a a a a a a. 4 to knows to by to Jackson and Dick Schaap last a week 5 weeks on list 11 a a a a a  5 the new russians by Hedrick Smith last week 4 a a weeks on list 2 a. A. A 6 get to the heart by Deborah Tannen last week 6 a weeks on list 25 y \ a. A a. A 7. Millie a Book As dictated to Barbara Bush last week 6. Weeks on list 18 a a v a. A a a a a a 8 the spiritual life of children by Robert Coles last week 12 weeks on list 2 a a a 9 the cat and the curmudgeon by Cleveland Amory. Last week a weeks on list 15.�10 Power shift by Alvin Toffler last week 10 weeks on list. 11 a paperback fiction1 dances with wolves by Michael Blake weeks on list 2 mystery by Peter Straub weeks on list 3 i 3 the Bonfire of the vanities by Tom Wolfe weeks on r list 37 4 talking god by Tony Hillerman weeks on list. 5. 5 misery by Stephen King weeks on list 23. 6 the bad place by Dean a Koontz weeks on list 10 7 the Russia House by John be Carre weeks on list 15 b sleepwalk by John Saul weeks on list 6 9 the gift by Julie Garwood weeks on list 5 .10 Foucault a pendulum by Umberto eco weeks on list. 8>. A. A a non fiction 1 All i really need to know i Learned in kindergarten by Robert Fulghum weeks on list 62 a 2 not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoodi with. William hotter weeks on list 2 3 from Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas l. Friedman a weeks on list 2.4. 4 the Road less travelled by m. Scott Peck weeks on list 379. A a a / 5. The Road from Coo rain by Jill Ker Conway weeks on list 20 a. 6 the cuckoo s egg by Cliff Stoll weeks on list 9 7 a Brief history of time by Stephen hawking weeks on list 33. \ a 8 education of a wandering Man by Louis l amour weeks on list 7 a a a a 9 liar s poker by Michael Lewis weeks on list 18 10 love Medicine and miracles by Bernie s. Siegel weeks on list 118. Paperback miscellaneous 1 All i need to know i Learned from my cat by Suzy. A Becker weeks on list 9 2 the world almanac and Book of facts 1991 weeks on list 6 Quot a a a 3 the seven habits of highly effective people by Stephen r. Covey weeks on list 74 codependent no More by Melody Beattie weeks on a. List 117 a. A a Quot a. A 5 Rand Mcnally Road Atlas first week on list compiled by the new York times. A. A. A stars and stripes Best Sellers fiction 1 the Plains of passage by Jean m. Auel2 four past Midnight by Stephen King 3 the witching hour by Anne rice4 lady Boss by Jackie collins5 the secret Pilgrim by John be Carro. 6 Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. -7 Longshot by Dick francis8 memories of Midnight by Sidney sheldon9 the general in his labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia. Marquez a ,. A. A 10 message from by Danielle Steelnon-fiction1 to knows to by to Jackson and Dick Schaap 2 songs of the doomed by Hunter s. Thompson .3 Iron John by Robert bly4 the cat and the curmudgeon by Cleveland Amory 5 Power shift by Alvin tottler6 get to the heart by Barbara Mandrell with George Vecsey a a a.7 Millie a Bookas dictated to Barbara Bush. -.8 by Way of deception by Victor ostrovsky9 a life on the Road by Charles kuralt10 the great Waldo search by Martin Handford overused words deserve Long rest James j Kilpatrick Universal press Syndicate a 1 la risk god save the English Lan Guage or whatever remains of ii have a scat. The court of irks y peeves and Crotchet resumes its a a a Winter session. First comes . Eckmann of Las vegas with a complaint against  he is joined by Charles f. Savage of Clovis n.m., with citations of a a simply James k. Moore of front Royal va., who brings charges against a activist a a a restructure and a a orientated and Duane h. Pontius of Gardendale Ala. Who pleads for an injunction against a Impact Quot and  seventeen readers ask that Quot Bot it. Tom line be banned. The petitions Are joined for purposes of denunciation. On its own motion the court will add a paradigm a a a parameters and a stale of the art.�?�. It is difficult to define what these words and phrases have in common. They evidence the flashy pretentiousness of rhinestone literati eager to show off whatever Gaudy Bauble is in fashion. Take  if this otherwise useful adverb had been taken Over wholly by adolescents we might put it Down to a phase. But no turn on the tube and watch for a basically the problem  and a basically the Economy is .1�?T beware of  our complainant cites a Page from a computer manual. Here the a Ceil Decd user is instructed to simply select simply choose simply specify simply store and simply return. The person who uses Quot simply is the same person whose incomprehensible directions end with a you can to miss  beware especially of a simple fact Quot in today a world facts Are rare animals and simple facts Are an endangered species. In Washington the latest nonce word is  not one person in a Hundred knows what it Means or How to spell it. A Remote Cousin of a paradigm is a parameter. Not one person in 10,000 would recognize a parameter if it turned up at a class reunion. In the rarefied atmosphere of a grammarians convention a a paradigm has a special meaning but basically a arg a paradigm is a Model an example a typical pattern. That is Ali a paradigm amounts to. That is the Bottom line. It a As for a Bottom line a there is nothing wrong with the phrase in its place. Its place is in an annual report. Only tired writers and speakers too weary to seek a fresh phrase will apply it generally to mean Crux upshot major decision final appraisal. Back to the original complaint nothing is bad enough to say about  the court asks that the other specimens of banality be forthwith removed the court recesses for a week before returning to Issue a few More sentences. January 27, 1991 sunday to plus c Page