European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I s i Svava is new York times list for the week of aug. 18 fiction 1 the sum of All fears by Tom Clancy first week on list 2 the firm by John Grisham last week 2 weeks on list 24 3 the Kitchen gods wife by Amy Tan last week 1 weeks on list 9. 4 maximum Bob by Elmore Leonard last week 3 weeks on list 4 5 outer Banks by Ann Rivers Siddons last week 6, weeks on list 5 6 Star wars heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn last week 5 weeks on list 14 7 loves music loves to dance by Mary Higgins Clark last week 8 weeks on list 16 8 pastime by Robert b. Parker last week 4, weeks on list 5 9 Paradise by Judith Mcnaught last week 9 weeks on list 9 10 beast by Peter Bench Fey last week 7 weeks on list 9 11 of the places you la go by or. Seuss last week 14 weeks on list 74 12 sky masters by Dale Brown last week 10 weeks on list 5 13 As the Crow flies by Jeffrey Archer last week 11 weeks on list 16 14 Texas Sage by Sandra Brown last week 12 weeks on list 3 15 Quot he is for homicide by sue Grafton first week on list non fiction 1 parliament of whores by . O Rourke last week 2 weeks on list 10 2 when you look like your passport photo it s time to go Home by Erma Bombeck last week 3 weeks on list 5. 3 chutzpah by Alan m. Dershowitz last week 1 weeks on list 10 4 Iron John by Robert Bly last week 4 weeks on list 40 5 tour ours Provence by Peter Mayle last week 5, weeks on list 8 6 fire in the belly by Sam keen last week 6 weeks on list 15. 7 Boss of Bosses by Joseph f. O Brien and Andris Kurins last week 7 weeks on list 7 8 a question of character by Thomas c. Reeves last week 8 weeks on list 8 9 the commanders by Bob Woodward last week 9 weeks on list 15 10 Dave Barry talks Back by Dave Barry last week 11 weeks on list 8 11 illiberal education by Dinesh d Souza weeks on list 13 12 and the beat goes on by Sonny Bono last week 10 weeks on list 2 13 the Beauty myth by Naomi Wolf weeks on list 2 14 under the influence by Peter Hernon and Terry Ganey last week 14 weeks on list 7 15 Woody Allen by Eric lax last week 13 weeks on list 12 paperback fiction 1 Sullivan a sting by Lawrence Sanders weeks on list 4 2 first Man in Rome by Colleen Mccullough weeks on list 4 3 the Burden of proof by Scott Turow weeks on list. 14 4 lady Boss by Jackie Collins weeks on list 6 5 the women in his life by Barbara Taylor Bradford first week on list. 6 september by Rosamunde Pilcher weeks on list. 9 7 Joy Luck club by Amy Tan weeks on list 31 8 the voice of the night by Dean r Koontz weeks on list 9 9 time bomb by Jonathan Kellerman first week on list 10 the silence of the lambs by Thomas Harris weeks on list. 45 paperback non fiction 1 you just done to understand by Deborah Tannen weeks on list 14 1 2 the education of Little tree by Forrest Carter weeks on list 9 3 a year in Provence by Peter Mayle weeks on list 6 4 the Road less travelled by m. Scott Peck weeks on list 407 5 All i really need to know i Learned in kindergarten by Robert Fulghum weeks on list 92 6 the Road from Coo rain by Jill Ker Conway weeks on list 47 7 done to know much about history by Kenneth c. Davis weeks on list 7 8 Michael Landon by Aileen Joyce weeks on list 2 9 it was on fire when i Lay Down Oil it by Robert Fulghum weeks on list 23. 10 composing a life by Mary Catherine Bateson weeks on list 13 paperback miscellaneous 1 the to Factor Gram counter by Jamie Pope Cordle and Martin Natahn weeks on list 56 2 the seven habits of highly effective people by Stephen r. Covey weeks on list 36. 3 the fat burning workout by Joyce l. Vedral weeks on list 4. 4 Rand Mcnally Road Atlas by Rand Mcnally weeks on list 13 4 life s Little instruction Book by h. Jackson Brownjr. Weeks on list .2 at stars and stripes bookstores latest available list of Best Sellers at stars and stripes bookstores fiction 1 the sum of All fears by Tom Clancy 2 Star wars heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn 3 fire sea volume 3 the death Gate Cycle by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman 4 the firm by John Grisham 5 heartbeat by Danielle steel 6 the Sheress of Kell by David Eddings 7 darkness by John Saul 8 sky masters by Dale Brown 8 the rustlers of West Fork by Louis l amour 10 Paradise by Judith Mcnaught 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 fire in the belly by Sam keen. 5 you la never eat lunch in this town again by Julia Phillips 6 the promised land by Nicholas Lemann a 7 Nancy Reagan the unauthorized biography by Kitty Kelley 8 Iron John by Robert Bly 9 her Blue body everything we know by Alice Walker 10 first air by Michael Skinner Tui kill r s Art ubiquity of big words leads to infinite problems James j. Kilpatrick Universal press Syndicate not Long ago a thoughtful Reader sent me a couple of pages from . Lewis letters to children. Here Lewis was writing to a 12-year-old in Florida about the writing Art. He set Down five rules that every writer should keep in mind �?o1. Always try to use the language so As to make quite Clear what you mean and make sure your sentence could t mean anything else. �?o2. Always prefer the Plain direct word to the Long vague one. Done to implement promises but keep them. �?o3. Never use abstract nouns when Concrete ones will do. If you mean a More people died a done to say a mortality  �?o4. Done to use adjectives that merely Tell us How you want us to feel about the thing you Are describing. I mean instead of telling us a thing was a terrible a describe it so that Well be terrified. Done to say it was a delightful make us say a delightful when we be read the description. You see All those words horrifying wonderful hideous exquisite Are Only like saying to your readers a please do my Job for  �?o5. Done to use words top big for the subject. Done to say a infinitely when you mean a very otherwise you la have no word left when you want to talk about something really  All of Lewis commandments Are sound. In Rule 5 he was taking about such words As outrage crisis disaster and the like which should indeed by used judiciously. But let me expand upon his thought about words that Are too big for the subject. Good writers love words. The feeling is sensuous almost tactile. We love to touch words play with them Trot them out for inspection when company comes for dinner. It is a tendency at once to be welcomed and resisted. Writers experience Joy in finding a new word and putting it to. Accurate use. We love to throw in an Apt allusion a French epigram a paraphrased quotation. Now and then we get swept away and we forget Lewis Rule 5. A few months ago a writer for the Miami Herald turned out a Story on the murder of Jack Nestor and his wife. The ample lived on Northeast 28th Street where he tinkered with inventions. Of his inventions the Herald noted a the vertical window Blind has the most  now there was a word i submit that was too big for the subject. Something that is ubiquitous is omnipresent it is everywhere at the same time it is like elevator music Garfield the cat and Jesse Jackson. There is no escaping ubiquity. And for the record i done to believe Quot ubiquity can be modified As most or least please done to get me wrong. Nothing on Earth is wrong with using unfamiliar words in writing to an audience that is familiar with them hew sins against the writing Are More grievous than writing Down to ones readers spooning pablum to grown ups. But take it easy. August 25, 1991 sunday a Page 9