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...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...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Assembly Debates Governance Proposal | 9/30/1980 | See Source »

Restaurant critics for U.S. newspapers tend to be sycophantic or ingenuous or both. Not Mimi Sheraton, the gustatory Boadicea of the New York Times. Her knowledge of food is almost as encyclopedic as the Larousse Gastronomique's, her judgments as potent as the Guide Michelin's. When La Sheraton damns a bistro, its owners have been known to look around for a safe job in, say, the bond market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A Restaurant Strikes Back | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A Restaurant Strikes Back | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A Restaurant Strikes Back | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

...Peking Duck at $38 may be precooked and tough-skinned, but-thanks to Mimi Sheraton-it makes for lively Mimi at work conversation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A Restaurant Strikes Back | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

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