Word: mimi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fields. His boyhood was neither as roughly working-class as early Beatles p.r. indicated, nor quite as benign as the magical association of those place names might suggest. But John's adolescence in the suburbs, the garden outside the back door and the warm ministrations of his Auntie Mimi did not diminish either the pain or the sense of separateness that was already stirring...
...Mimi R. Jacobs '81, an assembly delegate from Winthrop House, said the proposal "would concentrate the number of people involved in student government, so that a few people would be running everything...
...plain dreadful and very expensive. If you found that kind of Chinese food in a Las Vegas nightclub, you'd say, 'Well, for a Las Vegas nightclub, this is what I would expect.' I have had better chow mein at the Copacabana in the '40s." Mimi was also "very seriously thinking" of talking to her lawyers...
...tempest in a chrysanthemum teacup? Not entirely. Critics of Critic Sheraton object that on occasion she is unnecessarily vitriolic. Says one noted food writer: "She writes laundry lists, not reviews. Mimi is far more concerned with whether a restaurant serves the third or fourth best kidneys in town than whether it is a pleasant place to visit where the reservations are honored, the hot food served hot and the cold food cold, and the people know how to smile." Be that as it may, the brouhaha may be worth more than three stars for Dish of Salt. After a dropoff...
...Peking Duck at $38 may be precooked and tough-skinned, but-thanks to Mimi Sheraton-it makes for lively Mimi at work conversation...