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...Rasputin stayed dead for a half-century and then, irrepressible, achieved reincarnation, not as one person this time, but as an entire decade--the '60s. This expansive metaphysics would have allowed him to show off all his facets: as holy man and party boy, as faith healer, sexual omnivore, purveyor of mystic salvations and bogus profundities, enemy of soap, hairy narcissist...
...soldiers never die; they get nominated to the board of Home Shopping Network. General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, former commander in chief, U.S. Central Command, looks set to become a director of the tireless purveyor of high-quality nylon garments at its annual meeting in May. Does this mean a chance to buy Desert-Storm-in-a-Teacups...
...many Republicans, Huffington was just a purveyor of gooey New Age political spirituality until she began to take on the leading G.O.P. candidate for President in a highly personal manner. On CNN early this month, she castigated Dole's rhetoric as old and tired, adding that "he had to read his opening and closing statements." Then she wrote an op-ed piece in the Journal that declared, "Leading a revolution means more than borrowing a bottle of Grecian Formula." Huffington wants Gingrich to be the nominee, though she seems willing to consider Colin Powell. "I believe only Newt Gingrich...
...legitimizing the notion of outer space sex offenders. The omnivorous appetite of the mass media and its allure have fed on and been fed by the Harvard community. Where once we were a breeding ground and intellectual wellspring for leaders today we are becoming an adept player and purveyor in the mass media game...
Among the best positioned to capitalize on the tastes -- in fact it has probably done the most to invent tastes where they didn't exist before -- is Smith & Hawken, a 16-year-old gardening purveyor that now mails out its catalog to 16 million customers. With a name reminiscent of the reliable groundskeepers of a Sussex estate and a canny sense of American snobbery, Smith & Hawken has spent the past year searching for new and wonderful ways to market $72 Haws watering cans and $42 Felco pruners. Already it has opened 15 stores, with 20 in all planned...