European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse M s i is i a fiction 1 the Kitchen gods wife by Amy Tan last week 1 weeks on list 6 2 the firm by John Grisham last week 2 weeks on list 21 3 loves music loves to dance by Mary Higgins Clark last week 5 weeks on list 13 4 Star wars heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn last week 3 weeks on list 11 5 Paradise by Judith Mcnaught last week 6 weeks on list 6 6 beast by Peter Benchley last week 4 weeks on list 6 a 7 pastime by Robert b. Parker last week 7 weeks on list 2. 8 outer Banks by Ann Rivers Siddons last week 17, weeks on list 2 9 of the places you la go by or. Seuss last week 10 weeks on list 71 10 As the Crow flies by Jeffrey Archer last week 8 weeks on list 13 non fiction 1 chutzpah by Alan m. Dershowitz last week 1 weeks on list 7 2 parliament of whores by . O Rourke last week 2 weeks on list 7 3 Iron John by Robert Bly last week 2 weeks on list 37 4 when you look like your passport photo its time to go Home by Erma Bombeck last week 9 weeks on list 25 tour ours Provence by Peter Mayle last week 5 weeks on list 5 6 fire in the belly by Sam keen last week 4 weeks on list 12. 7 Boss of Bosses by Joseph f. O Brien and Andris Kurins last week 6 weeks on list 4 8. The commanders by Bob Woodward last week 7 weeks on list 12 9 a question of character by Thomas c. Reeves last week 8 weeks on list 5 10 Woody Allen by Eric lax last week 11 weeks on list 9 paperback fiction 1 Sullivan a sting by Lawrence Sanders first week on list 2 lady Boss by Jackie Collins weeks on list 3 3 september by Rosamunde Pilcher weeks on list 6 4 the Burden of proof by Scott Turow weeks on list 11 5 the voice of the night by Dean r. Koontz weeks on list 6 6 the prize by Julie Garwood weeks on list 3 7 dying Young by Marti Leimbach weeks on list 5 8 Joy Luck club by Amy Tan weeks on list 28 9 first Man i Rome by Colleen Mccullough first week on list10 Texas Chase by Sandra Brown weeks on list 2 paperback non fiction 1 you just done to understand by Deborah Tannen weeks on list 11 2 the education of Little tree by Forrest Carter weeks on list 6 3 a year in Provence by Peter Mayle weeks on list 3 4 All i really need to know i Learned in kindergarten by Robert Fulghum weeks on list 89 5 the Road less travelled by m. Scott Peck weeks on list 404 6 Don t know much about history by Kenneth c. Davis weeks on list 4 7 it was on fire when i Lay Down on it by Robert Fulghum weeks on list 20 8 composing a life by Mary Catherine Bateson weeks on list 10 9 the Road from Coo rain by Jill Ker Conway weeks on list 44 10 from Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas l. Friedman weeks on list 50 paperback miscellaneous 1 the seven habits of highly effective people by Stephen r. Covey weeks on list 33 2 the to Factor Gram counter by Jamie Pope Cordle. And Martin Natahn weeks on list 53 4 Rand Mcnally Road Atlas by Rand Mcnally weeks on list 10 4 the fat burning workout by Joyce l. Vedral first week on list 5 the revenge of die baby sat by Bill Watterson weeks on list 20 compiled by the new York time stars and stripes Best Sellers fiction 1 loves music loves to dance by Mary Higgins Clark 2 Star wars heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn 3 the firm by John Grisham 4 heartbeat by Danielle steel 5 the Sheress of Kell by David Eddings 6 the rustlers of West Fork by Louis l amour 7 As the Crow flies by Jeffrey Archer 8 Thunder of Erebus by Payne Harrison 9 extreme measures by Michael Palmer 10 the novel by James Michen Ernon fiction 1 the commanders a 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 the promised land by Nicholas Lemann 6 fire in the belly by Sam keen 7 Nancy Reagan the unauthorized biography by Kitty Kelley 8 Iron John by Robert Bly 9 first air by Michael Skinner 10 her Blue body everything we know by Alice Walker the writer s Art casting aspirations on the Mother of All abstracts James j. Kilpatrick Universal press Syndicate Ark Twain is an authority for the self evident proposition that a writer should seek the exact word and not its second Cousin. Some writers Seeni to find Distant uncles. Let us examine a few horrid examples. Answers at the end. 1. The Greenville . News reported a few weeks ago that a 15-year-old girl had been arrested on a felony charge of Drunken driving. Two Misdemeanour charges also were brought against her. She posted a $10,000 Bond on the felony charge. A personal reconnaissance Bonds were set for the other two these were not reconnaissance Bonds. What were they 2. In Larry Mcmurtry a novel some Cun whistle a character is a the sinecure of so Many watchful sinecure 3. A couple of years ago the Las vegas re View journal carried an on the animosity Between state sen. Don Mcullo and gov. Bob Miller. A the two men have been protagonists since legislators overrode Millers protagonists 4. In Louisville ky., a columnist for the new voice speculated that the National arts Council would not Darc to veto recommendations for far out exhibits of Art. A a veto would cast aspirations on the critical faculties of panel aspirations 5. An editorial in the Indianapolis news urged parents to Monitor the lyrics of popular music. A parents will simply have to keep a closer Eye and More attenuated ear on what their youngsters arc being exposed attenuated 6. In Spartanburg ., a sportswriter for the Herald journal looked ahead to the basketball season. He found a wealth of experience at the University of South Carolina a and abstract poverty on the Campus of Wofford abstract 7. The Seattle Post intelligencer carried a feature Story in january about novelist Natalie Kusz. As a child she was horribly maimed by an attacking sled dog. She still remembers her stay in the Hospital a a of waking up to the pc Cund smell of her own mucus soaked fecund ready for answers 1. The Young woman was released on her own recognizance. 2. Mcmurtry meant cynosure defined As a a focal Point of attention and 3. The governor and the senator weren to protagonists they were antagonists. 4. A veto would cast aspersions on the panel members i.e., slanderous reflections. 5. Let us have an attentive car. An attenuated ear would be a weak one. A 6. The poverty at Wofford presumably was abject. 7. To be fecund is to be fruitful. The smell was most probably fetid. U August 4. 1991 sunday a Page 9
