Word: mavens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Maven's Kosher Court, 95 Winthrop St., is closed until further notice because of its substantial financial losses, part-owner and operator Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz said yesterday...
...have been losing money on every sandwich we sell," said Dershowitz. Dershowitz said the partners of the deli had anticipated that Maven's would lose money shortly after opening, but they had not expected the restaurant to remain in the red for as long...
...Some of Maven's problems stem from its attempt to serve the Orthodox Jewish community. When it first opened last spring, Maven's did not serve on Friday nights and Saturdays in order to earn strict kosher certification. Maven's also hired a cook who had worked at Harvard Hillel...
Goldman deserves considerable credit for making such sordid, depressing material compulsively readable. The Lives of John Lennon is a far more balanced and objective biography than his Elvis (1981). Goldman, a pop-culture maven and former professor of English at Columbia University, had no sympathy for Presley or for the gospel, country and rockabilly traditions that fused in his music. Much of Elvis crouches at the level of a self-conscious hipster poking fun at a greaseball bumpkin...
...Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat, to be published next month (Random House; 288 pages; $17.95). She reported the story and remains unconvinced by defense arguments that McDuffie died of crash injuries. The balance of the book is a recollecting of her 16-year career as Miami's murder maven. "I have reported more than 5,000 violent deaths," she boasts. "Many of the corpses have had familiar faces: cops and killers, politicians and prostitutes, doctors and lawyers. Some were my friends...