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Restaurant Critic Mimi Sheraton is feared and followed
Finally someone hit back. When Mimi Sheraton, restaurant critic of the New York Times and the most influential commentator on dining out in America, was spotted at a table in a new Manhattan spot, the owner threw her out. Fumed Michael O'Keeffe, proprietor of the Water Club: "The public loves something, then a critic comes along and says it's not good." O'Keeffe's stand was brave but futile. Sheraton took to her Friday column last week and described the encounter in her usual remorseless detail, ending with some speculation on the rights...
...week in Washington was not all gravely introspective. In Georgetown restaurants and funky taverns, the war's survivors celebrated that survival. The lobby of the Sheraton Washington Hotel, for instance, was turned into a sort of nonstop cash-bar bivouac. Hundreds of vets, mainly Army, swarmed and shouted ("Airborne? Whoa!") with drinks in hand...
...room upstairs at the Sheraton was close and smoky, the emotional tone jangly. Here was a weeper, there a grinning josher, and everywhere beer bottles and nervous wives. For the two dozen former Special Forces men jammed into the hotel suite for their reunion, many dressed in fatigues, there had clearly never been a Veterans Day quite like this. "How are the Green Berets different?" piped up former Sergeant Mark Atchison. Tougher? Smarter? No. "We believed it. We tried to win their hearts and minds. We never called 'em 'gooks.' " An instant later...
...PLUSH SLIGHTLY SEEDY lobby of the Suck Cheri (near the Sheraton) has a pretty good selection of video games to the right of the entrance; on the left is counter where for the price of 14 chances to save the maiden from Donkey Kong. You can purchase a ticket to see Surved. For suspence, excitement and interesting characters the choice is clear Turn right...