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...Zagat guides are not just for restaurants anymore. The publisher of consumer-based guides is fast diversifying into the wider world of leisure. Zagat last year came out with its first guide to movies. Now this people's-Choice Empire Is Taking On Shopping, Broadway Theater And Even, Later This Year, Music CDs. How do the new books stack up? Here's the notebook survey. (Rated on a scale...
...ZAGAT SURVEY Movies...
...shocking thing about the museum, besides the $17 admission, is that it exists at all: a Fifth Avenue building completely devoted to the history of sex. Patrons will be impressed by the snazzy multimedia presentations, such as an interactive computer map of early 20th century cathouses, with nice little Zagat-style reviews (the "nice but pushy" madam's "notion of submission is to keep you waiting for an hour"). And visitors will find the stories of Manhattan sex scandals good reading in a tabloidy, microfiche kind of way, but the exhibit can get awfully soporific, considering that it's about...
...shocking thing about the museum, besides the $17 admission, is that it exists at all: a Fifth Avenue building completely devoted to the history of sex. Patrons will be impressed by the snazzy multimedia presentations, such as an interactive computer map of early 20th century cathouses, with nice little Zagat-style reviews (the "nice but pushy" madam's "notion of submission is to keep you waiting for an hour"). And visitors will find the stories of Manhattan sex scandals good reading in a tabloidy, microfiche kind of way, but the exhibit can get awfully soporific, considering that it's about...
...department store restaurant, Harvey Nichols," he says. "When we gave them a bad review they refused to carry our books. That kind of behavior can make reviewing these restaurants a delicate situation." Harvey Nichols' Dominic Ford points out that the store carries only two restaurant guidebooks, including the Zagat Survey, which gave his restaurant a mixed review. "I would not refuse to stock a book based on a bad review," says Ford. "I have just chosen not to sell all the guidebooks." Harden and Zagat both acknowledge that for a restaurant to be reviewed it has to be mentioned...