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" 'Their patter and chat-
ter is to sell newspapers,
and that's what it's all ab-
out,' said Stuart Levin,
owner of Top of the Park in
New York.
U 'Criticism belongs in
some of the other arts,
but not in ours,' accord-
ing to Stan Pekarsky of
Louisville.
" 'I would not walk into
someone's home and
criticize it,' Nicholas
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Fishmarket said. 'If you
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"The comments were
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made during an animated
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Answer the Critics,' in
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which most operators
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Featuring
showed varying degrees of
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scorn for critics.
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"Nicholas said he thinks
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nobody has a right to
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"The critic is denying
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make a living," he said,
relating a tale of one sub-
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urban Chicago operator
James Beard, New York Times
who lost $18,000 a week in
business after an un-
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"Nicholas urged oper-
ators to take legal action
against critics who give
poor reviews to their res-
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`I haven't found a lawyer
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"Most lawyers won't take
such cases because critics
have a constitutional right
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"Although other
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" 'Are we to be judged
by the whims and fancy
of critics?' Levin asked.
`Our severest critic will
be Mr. and Mrs. John Q.
Public.'
"Sherman Kaplan, a res-
taurant critic for a Chicago
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radio station, attempted to
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"Addressing operators'
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complaints that critics re-
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view restaurants after one
visit, Kaplan said, try to
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the average consumer does.
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go back. At the same time, if
I have wonderful experi-
ence, should I go back more
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than once before I review it?
It's a two-way street, you
, know."
Panelists said they ob-
jected to being reviewed
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. by critics who do not
have food-service ex-
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nne. perience.
But Kaplan replied that
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the food-service industry,
yet they form opinions any-
way.
" 'I don't think it's neces-
sary for a critic to own a res-
taurant, just as it is not
necessary for a critic of
music to be a conductor,' he
said.
"Nicholas told operators
that if nothing can stop cri-
tics, then operators should
cancel advertisements in
newspapers that carry bad
reviews.
"Don't forget that some-
one hired that critic," he
said. 'We are giving that
publication advertising
money. We are paying bil-
lions of dollars to go out and
hire critics to criticize us.'
"Bakos backed state-
ments by the panelists.
She told operators that
they should take solace in
recent Supreme Court
decisions that have
limited the power of the
press.
"Panelists and operators
concluded the session by
suggesting ways to 'cope
with critics:
• "Urge the NRA to take
legal action against critics
who hurt an operator's
business.
• "Establish a list of
criteria through the NRA
that critics should meet,
and then publicize a listing
of critics who don't meet the
recommended standards.
• "Set criteria through
the NRA on which a restau-
rant should be judged, with
the goal of making the criti-
cal art less subjective.
• "Suggest to newspaper
editors that all reviews be
labeled 'opinion' so that
readers understand that the
review represents the opin-
ion of the writer, not the
newspaper.
• "Ask critics to include in
their reviews the number of
times they visited the res-
taurant before writing an
evaluation of it."
Sephardic House spon-
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Sephardic House in the sored lectures on the Jews of
Spanish and Portuguese Morocco, Jewish art of the
Synagogue has completed Italian Renaissance, and Is-
its first season. lamic influences in Jewish
Sephardic House offered life, as well as a photo=
28 classes on Judeo-Spanish graphic exhibit and lecture
literature, folk singing, on Jewish sites in Spain by
Judeo-Arabic folklore, Victor Laredo, an expert on
Sephardic_ literary texts, Sephardic culture.
Sephardic cooking and simi-
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