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Article: EATERY'S ADS STILL A BONE OF CONTENTION
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 19, 2008
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Insults are akin
to bullying
I WAS disheartened to see Sam Allis's views in "Quit crabbing"
(The Observer, Page A2, June 15). The ads Legal Sea Foods has chosen
to garner business seem incongruous to the attitude I am sure they
would like to portray.
As a teacher, I am offended by terms referring to someone as ugly
and to a female who "gets around." Those are terms bullies use.
The company's owner, Roger Berkowitz, is arrogant at best when he
responds to criticism of an ad that says "This conductor has a face
like a halibut" by saying he has seen T workers who also look like
groupers, catfish, and flounder.
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