European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 22, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Bust Sellers new York times list for the week of sept 22 fiction 1 the sum of All fears by Tom Clancy last week 1, weeks on list. 5 2 the doomsday conspiracy by Sidney Sheldon last week 2 weeks on list 2 3 Saint maybe by Anne Tyler last week. 4, weeks on list 3 4 the firm by John Grisham last week 3 weeks on list 28 5 Flowers in the rain by Rosamunde Pilcher last week 7 weeks on list 3 6 the Kitchen gods wife by Amy Tan last week 5 weeks on list 13 7 Russka by Edward Rutherfurd last week 12 weeks on list 2 8 Star wars heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn last week 6 weeks on list 18 9 of the places you la go by or. Seuss last week 8 weeks on list 78 10 loves music loves to dance by Mary Higgins Clark last week 9 weeks on list 20 11 outer Banks by Ann Rivers Siddons last week 11, weeks on list 9. 12 maximum Bob by Elmore Leonard last week 10 weeks on list 8 a 13 exceptional clearance by William j. Caunitz first week on list 14 the Garden of Rama by Arthur c Clarke last week 13 weeks on list 3 15 Paradise by Judith Mcnaught last week 14 weeks on list 13 non-fiction1 2 3 4 me stories of my life by Katherine Hepburn first week on list us of by Robed Fulghum last week 1 weeks on list 4 Iron John by Robed Bly last week 4 weeks on list 44 parliament of whores by . Of Rourke last week 2 weeks on list 14 5 fire in the belly by Sam keen last week 6 weeks on list 19 6 tour ours Provence by Peter Mayle last week 7 weeks on list 12 7 chutzpah by Alan m. Dershowitz last week 5 weeks on list 14 8 when you look like your passport photo its time to go Home by Erma Bombeck last week 3 weeks on list 9 9 la Toya by la Toya Jackson with Patricia Romanowski first week on list 10 Anne Sexton by Diane Wood Middlebrook last week 9 weeks on list 3 11 hard courts by John Feinstein last week 11 weeks on list 2 12 a question of character by Thomas c. 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Dershowitz Dave Barry talks Back by Dave bairy8 the Rand Mcnally Road atlas9 the better Homes and gardens new Cookbook 10 tour ours Provence by Peter Mayle 4 5 6 7 the writer s Artif you done to Parley Francais done to even try Jamesj Kilpatrick Universal press Syndicate first a caveat. It is a Fine won. Out of the i at in  to beware Ami a warning is in order. You faithful readers have heard this lecture or parts of it 17 times Over the past Iii years. I he Gist of it is beware of foreign phrases. I he Are the banana peels of prose composition. A i ins is the  have heard it Many times. Ii you Are absolutely positively. Irr exers Ihly. Irresistibly determined to use a foreign phrase get it right Ciet it right the Way a it do this is to look it up look it up ibis is not difficult. I lie three most popular desk dictionaries american heritage. Merri am Webster s ninth new collegiate and the new random House Webster s contain scores of foreign phrases. The random House unabridged provides an appendix in which the most common phrases in French. Spanish. Herman and italian Are translated Back and Forth. Professional writers should acquire a copy of the Mawson Berlitz dictionary of foreign terms. Quot properly used a foreign Phra Mav add a Nice touch. It garnishes the Diedt it picks up the sauce. It provides a tantalizing Wisp of exotic Peri time. The writer is communicating a sense of shared intellectual superiority. The writer is speaking to his readers entre Nous. But again beware the writer who blunders Over a foreign word makes a fool of himself. I he attentive Reader is not impressed. The attentive Reader May be amused incredulous disgusted or appalled but the desired effect has been lost in the snickers and Haw Haws. Horrid examples the officers club at port cordon cia., worked up a new menu a few months ago. Let us pass in silence Over a Bleu cheese Quot which was just showing off and let us skip the misspelling of a Tourn Dos i abcs Quot it s Diab Loand get on to the French dip thinly sliced roast beef served on a Steak Bun smothered in onions a with hot a jus to  what the guest was offered was Quot with hot with juice to  Haw Haw. A publication in san Francisco sunday punch last year carried a quotation from a Quot Shiatsu masseuse Quot with a picture to id nigh the masseuse. I la is masseuse had a Lull Iva id and a mowing Mustache lie was m a Woid. A masseur. I Law Haw. I lie c hic ago Sun times Man m Wash Glon reported m december that vice pies Donl Dan of Axle had placed Goll at Cypress Point in Pebble Beach. I lie club had been dipped Ilioiu the  Pio am Lour because of ils All while male membership. T his was Sulla Ici ilk Hovic Xidous. Quot bul Quayle a a Washington Ollick compounded the Faux Pax in offering up die defense that the sice pies Donl never had Licard of lie controversy Quot f Aux Pax in s Faux pay dial is. C heal my husbands. My r 1991 Ginday Page 9