Word: purveyor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...touch of bitterness. Accused by his father, the equally, if not more famous novelist Kingsley Amis, of a “terrible compulsive vividness in his style,” Amis the younger has never been one to pander to the masses. At his best, he is a witty purveyor of critical and cultural insight; at his worst, he is an arrogant misogynist. Like many of his novels, The War Against Cliché is a tad too long and a tad too self-indulgent. The book’s saving grace is that it packages Amis into short, self-contained...
RaHoWa's Cult of the Holy War CD, with its rants urging whites to kill "vile, alien hordes" and destroy the Jews, is typical fare for Resistance Records, the world's leading purveyor of "hate-core" music. Some other hot titles from Resistance's catalog: Nordic Thunder's Born to Hate and Centurion's Fourteen Words. The 14 words? "We Must Secure the Existence of Our Race and a Future for White Children," as the CD jacket helpfully notes...
...fantasy-filled, you-can-have-it all '90s, John Peterman was the ultimate purveyor of armchair-adventure shopping. His floridly written catalog pulled in a cult following--and $75 million a year in sales--by hawking evocative clothing, furniture and collectibles to upscale shoppers. Peterman outfitted Frank Sinatra and Oprah Winfrey and got a priceless p.r. boost when the TV megahit Seinfeld parodied him on its show...
Nobody played the business of golf better than Ely Callaway. He bought a fledgling four-person start-up in 1982 and turned it into the most successful purveyor of golf clubs in the sport's 300-year history. Callaway's innovation was to design clubs with oversize heads (remember your first Big Bertha?), which made a difficult, frustrating game immediately more satisfying to the weekend duffer...
...doing is not about fashion. They do this partially for the benefit of Wall Street--fashion is cyclical and temporary, and the marketers need to convince investors that their brand will be Armani or Ralph Lauren, never really going off the boil. So how to reposition Coach, a purveyor of high-quality if not sex-drenched handbags, whose turf was being mowed by more fashion-aware companies, such as Kate Spade, and by other designers who were beginning to do handbags...