European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 29, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse I m so i i is new York times list fiction 1 Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley last week 1 weeks on list 2 no greater love by Danielle steel last week-1 weeks on list 5 3 needful things by Stephen King last week 3, weeks on list 10 4 the sum of All fears by Tom Clancy last week 4 weeks on list 18 5 the Jolly Christmas postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg first week on list 6 night Over water by Ken Follett last week 6, weeks on list 12 7 the doomsday conspiracy by Sidney Sheldon Iasi week 10 weeks on list 15 8 the Polar express by Chris Vanallsburg first week on list 9 wet by Garrison Keillor last week 7 weeks on list 3 10 comeback by Dick Francis last week. 8 weeks on list 8 11 the Sapphire Rose by David Eddings last week 5-weeks on list. 5 12 the firm by John Grisham last week 9, weeks on list 41 13 remember by Barbara Taylor Bradford last week 11 weeks on list 8 14 gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell weeks on list 6 15 maus ii by Art Spiegelman last week 15 weeks on Lisl non fiction 1 me stories of my life by Katharine Hepburn last. Week 1 weeks on list 14 2 under fire by Oliver l. North with William Novak last week 3 weeks on list 7 3 us of by Robert Fulghum last week 4 weeks on fist 17 4 Den of thieves by James b. Stewart last week 2-weeks on list. 10 5 memories by Ralph Emery with Tom Carter last week 5 weeks on list 3 6 the Jordan rules by Sam Smith last week 0 weeks on list 3 7 childhood by Bill Cosby last week 6 weeks on list 7 8 pair Perth by William Leas heat Moon last week 10-weeks on list 8 9 Molly Ivins can t say thai can she by Molly Ivins Iasi week 12 weeks on list 6 10 when you look like your passport photo its time to go Home by Erma Bombeck last week 13 weeks on list 18. 11 backlash by Susan Faludi last week 7, weeks on list 8 12 parliament of whores by . O Rourke last week 9 weeks on list 27 13 the world is my Home by James Michener first week on list 14 photographs Annie Leibovitz by Annie Leibovitz first week on list 15 Iron John by Robert Bly last week 11, weeks on list 57 paperback fiction 1 the waste lands by Stephen King first week on list 2 Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton weeks on list 5 3 cold fire by Dean r. Koontz weeks on list 4 4 Star trek i the undiscovered country by . Dillard first week on list 5 the Prince of tides by Pat Conroy weeks on list. 33 6 the Plains of passage by Jean m. Aunt weeks on list 8 7 prisoner of my desire by Johanna Lindsey weeks on list 4 8 the fourth k by Mario Puzo weeks on list 2 9 the education of Little tree by Forrest Carter weeks on list 26 10 perchance of dream by Howard Weinstein weeks on list 3ipaperback non fiction 1 a year in Provence by Peter Mayle weeks on list 23 2 you just Don t understand by Deborah Tannen weeks on list 31 ,3 Alt i really need to know i Learned in kindergarten by Robert Fulghum weeks on list 109 4 the cat who came Tor Christmas by Cleveland Amory weeks on list 29 5 it was on fire when i Lay Down on it by Robert Fulghum weeks on list 39 6 a life on the Road by Charles Kuralt weeks on list. 7 7 Don t know much about history by Kenneth c Davis weeks on list 24 .8 a natural history of the senses by Diane Ackerman weeks on list 8 9 the Road less travelled by m. Scott Peck weeks on list 424 10 in a child a name by Peter Maas weeks on list. 2 paperback miscellaneous 1 life s Little instruction Book by h Jackson Brownjr weeks on list 19 2 scientific Progress goes a a Boink by Bill Walterson weeks on list 12 3 unnatural selections by Gary Larson weeks on list 8 4 the world almanac and Book of facts 1992 weeks on list 2 5 a Southern Belle primer by Maryln Schwarz weeks on list 4 at stars and stripes bookstores latest available list of Best Sellers at Slars and stripes shopping Center bookstores fiction 1 Scarlett by Alexandra ripley2 no greater love by Danielle steel3 needful things by Stephen King 4 the Sapphire Rose by David eddings5 the sum of All fears by Tom clancy6 Star wars heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn 7 Majica by Clive Barker 8 grass Crown by Colleen Mccullough 9 Lila by Robert m. Pirsig 10 Saint maybe by Anne Tyler non fiction 1 us of by Robert Fulghum 2 me stories of my life by Katharine Hepburn 3 pair Perth by William least heat Moon 4 final exit by Derek Humphry 5 the Samson option by Seymour hersh6 More wealth without risk by Charles Givens 7 where s Waldo by Martin handford8 Columbus and the age of discovery by Zvi Dor Ner and w m schneller9 the Popcorn report by Faith Popcorn 10 America the Beautiful Cookbook by Philip Schulz Nikki i l r s a i on being Stuffy and lightening up Jamesj Al in Airick v encounter this gambit All the time and writers and slogan ers agreeably give up a syntactical Point in order to grab is. An sex cell Cut example comes from the United negro College fund. The fund annually receives hundreds of letters objecting to its slogan a a mind is a terrible thing to the complainants want it changed to a it is a terrible thing to waste a mind a but the fund has a syntactical Cyc Catcher and will not give it up. A Bank in Indianapolis offered a radio commercial last year a nobody docs it better than a Reader complained to the Bank that it should have been a nobody does it better than we do the Bank a chairman responded by saying that his and Agency Quot advised me that the use of the word a us is permitted by grammatical experts. Also a they stated that when communication efforts Are in a conversational context this phrasing is acceptable and even encouraged in some maybe so. Henry g. Campbelljr. Of Eugene ore., offered Sage advice on my question about the Jaguar and. A my advice to you Quot said the gentleman a is not to be so Good Point. We have formal speech and casual speech and the rules that apply to one done to necessarily apply to the other. I am mostly Stuffy most of the time so i urge you be Stuffy but if you want to write ads for a living lighten up. A Steve Duin the talented writer with the Portland oregonian mentioned in last weeks column said he Felt a Little embarrassed to go Public with emotions about his daughter. But he wrote about them anyway. It is necessary Duin was saying to protect the dear moments of our lives with silence. We ought to bleed in private. He recalled the sunday morning when he read in the papers of the death in an air plane crash of at Holbert a Brilliant race car Driver he had known As a sports writer. They had been close friends. He thought of going to the oregonian office to write a column in tribute but he find the right words. A so i went alone to Church the Early service and sat quietly until the piano player Laid his a hands on a song that always leaves its fingerprints on my Throat. The Why of that is so deep within me that 1 can to Pul it out. But As the piano played and those around me Sang i wrote my goodbyes to a1 Holbert in words that Bear repeating. A i bled in private and then went Home desperate for my daughter. When she heard my key in the front door she came running for me her arms and mine outstretched in breathless speechless reunion Quot a there my friends and fellow students was a writer at work. Duin has yet achieved the Fame arid Fortune that goes with a Best seller but give him time. He has the writers gift. Not Many newsmen do. Universal press Syndicate dec Ember 29 19 1 sunday a
