European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 21, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Hist Sellers fiction 1 the Kitchen. Gods wife by Amy Tan last week 1 weeks on list 4 2 the firm by John Grisham last week 2 weeks on list 19 3 Star wars heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn last week 3 weeks on list 9 4 loves music loves to dance by Mary Higgins Clark last week 4 weeks on list 11 5 beast by Peter Benchley last week 6 weeks on list 4 6 Paradise by Judith Mcnaught last week 5 weeks on list 4 7 As the Crow flies by Jeffrey Archer last week 7 weeks on list 11 a 8 of the places you la go by or. Seuss last week 8 weeks on list 69 9 the piranhas by Harold Robbins last week 16, weeks on list 3 10 the rustlers of the West Fork by Louis l amour last week 9 weeks on list 5 non fiction 1 chutzpah by Alan m. Dershowitz last week 2 weeks on list 5 2 Iron John by Robert Bly last week 1 weeks on list 35. 3 parliament of whores by . Of Rourke last week 4 weeks on list 5 4 the commanders by Bob Woodward last week 3 weeks on list 10 5 Boss of Bosses by Joseph f. O Brien and Andris Kurins first week on list 6 fire in the belly by Sam keen last week 6 weeks on list 10 7 a question of character by Thomas c. Reeves last week 7 weeks on list 3. 8 tour ours Provence by Peter Mayle last week 5, weeks on list 3 9 Paul Harvey a for what its Worth edited by Paul Harvey or. Last week 11 weeks on list 4 10 counsel to the president by Clark Clifford with Richard Holbrook last week 10 weeks on list 7 paperback fiction 1 september by Rosamunde Pilcher weeks on list 4 2 the voice of the night by Dean r. Koontz weeks on list 4 3 the Burden of proof by Scott Turow weeks on list 9 4 dragon by Clive Cussler weeks on list 5 5 the prize by Julie Garwood first week on list 6 dying Young by Marti Leimbach weeks on list 3 7 second child by John Saul weeks on list 5 8 breath of scandal by Sandra Brown weeks on list 4 9 the silence of the lambs by Thomas Harris weeks on list. 40 10 lady Boss by Jackie Collins first week on list paperback non fiction 1 you just done to understand by Deborah Tannen weeks on list 9 2 the education of Little tree by Forrest Carter weeks a on list 4 3 a year in Provence by Peter Mayle first week on list 4 All i really need to know i Learned in kindergarten by Robert Fulghum weeks on list 87 5 the Road less travelled by m. Scott Peck weeks on list 402 6 composing a life by Mary Catherine Bateson weeks on list 8 7 it was on fire when i Lay Down on it by Robert Fulghum weeks on list 18 8 from Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas l. Friedman weeks on list 48 9 done to know much about history by Kenneth c Davis the writers Art weeks on list 2 10 the Road from Coo rain by Jill Ker Conway weeks on list 42 paperback miscellaneous 1 the to Factor Gram counter by Jamie Pope Cordle and Martin Natahn weeks on list 51 2 Rand Mcnally Road Atlas by Rand Mcnally weeks on list 83 the seven habits of highly effective people by Stephen r. Covey weeks on list 31 4 the to Factor diet by Martin Natahn weeks on list. 13 5 the revenge of the baby sat by Bill Watterson weeks on list 18 compiled by the new York times stars and stripes Best Sellers fiction 1 loves music loves to dance by Mary Higgins Clark 2 the firm by John Grisham 3 Star wars heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn 4 heartbeat by Danielle steel 5 the Sheress of Kell by David Eddings 6 As the Crow flies by Jeffrey Archer 7 Thunder of Erebus by Payne Harrison 8 extreme measures by Michael Palmer 9 the novel by James Mtchener 10 crossfire by David Hagberg non fiction 1 the commanders by Bob Woodward 2 silent coup by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin 3 Dave Barry talks Back by Dave Barry 4 you la never eat lunch in this town again by Julia Phillips 5 Nancy Reagan the unauthorized biography by Kitty Kelley 6 the promised land by Nicholas Lemann 7 fire in the belly by Sam keen 8 Iron John by Robert Bly 9 first air by Michael Skinner 10 her Blue body everything we know by Alice Walker verbal debates Arentt As crucial As they seem 1 James j. Kilpatrick Universal press Syndicate if aging grammarians and Radical Vanung i writers will conic to order the court of peeves irks and Crotchet will resume its summer session. Jay Thompson of Myrtle Beach s.c., cites an and for United parcel service Quot we deliver More packages overnight than anyone who delivers  l in moves to insert the word a a else after  the court Grants the motion but to hum. The insertion of a else Quot wont Hurt the sentence it wont help it much either. As in so Many questions of syntax the Choice is mostly a matter of the writers ear. There is no binding Rule. A similarly permissive decision must be made on an inquiry from Bill Manderfeld in Sherwood Ore. He noticed a headline in Newsweek in january a the iraqi army is not nearly As Good As  he wonders if it  he better to say a not nearly so Good As  websters dictionary of English usage has an interesting note on the matter. At one time six or seven centuries ago influential scholars insisted that in negative constructions Quot so. Ask should be employed instead of Quot As.  toward the end of the 18th Century a few respectable examples of Quot As As Quot cropped up. By the end of the 19th Century Henry Adams was writing a the Church never was As Rotten As the Stock Exchange is  Theodore Bernstein the late great copy editor of the new York times said Quot if there Ever was a Rule there is none now. Both combinations Are used and a As. Ask is by far the More  the sunday Seattle times carried a headline in january Quot symphony director chomping at the  Reader Gordon Neumiller of Mercer Island asks a ruling on a a chomping As distinguished from  websters ninth new collegiate goes with a Champ a which it defines As Quot to show impatience of delay or  american heritage sanctions both Champ and chomp but lists chomp As a variant spelling. Random House is similarly ambivalent. If the court must Rule on so stale a metaphor As a champing or chomping at the bit Quot an image that must elude 90 percent of our non Horsey population the court will Rule in favor of  the verb dates from 1530, when impatient steeds were All Over the place. Charlotte Kret Zoi at Indiana University in Bloomington moves to abolish  phrases As a women writers and a women  in their place she would substitute a woman writers and a woman  in  constructions she notes the noun Quot women functions As an adjective. Why the plural form we would not write of a females writers or a females soldiers or a males flight  the court is taken Aback. Kract Zois a complaint certainly sounds legitimate but the court chooses to postpone a ruling pending remand to the league of Wom a voters. July 21, 1991 sunday a Page 9