Word: mavens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Professional critics have mixed feelings about the guides. "I use it constantly," says Gael Greene, New York magazine's food maven. "When friends ask me for a suggestion about where to go, I use it to remind me of what I love." But Greene, like critic Elaine Tait of the Philadelphia Inquirer, also cautions that the Zagat ratings represent a "popularity poll," not an expert's informed judgment. "It's easy to be brave when your name's not on an opinion," says Tait...
...control of the giant food and tobacco company in a $25 billion leveraged-buyout brawl last year, he also lost his job. Last week RJR's new owner, the buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, announced its surprise choice for Johnson's replacement: Louis Gerstner, 47, marketing maven and president of American Express...
Pornography protestors bomb the site of shut-down Maven's Deli, owned by Penthouse columnist and Harvard civil libertarian Alan M. Dershowitz. They are featured on Nightline when Dershowitz sues them for $21,000 in leftover pastrami costs. But he reminds Ted Koppel, "I still defend their right to free expression...
Dershowitz explained that the owners opened Maven's "to provide a service to the [Jewish] community." but found that there just was not a large enough market in the area for the business to produce profits...
...Maven's co-owner Marcus S. Weiss, a Cambridge lawyer, said the partners were "still great believers in the Maven's concept" of providing kosher deli food, but he added that the owners were having trouble finding experienced deli operators...