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...contempt for the overt has led observers to compare her to that other purveyor of modern simplicity, Giorgio Armani -- an analogy Sander rejects. "I'm happy he exists," she says, "because he brought a minimalist vision of fashion compared with, say, Chanel or Versace. But I feel far away from him; these are two different concepts." In fact, Sander's style is even more spartan than Armani's, her palette even narrower; her detractors would argue that her look is far more severe and somber. "She is one of those designers other designers laugh at," says Joan Weinstein...
...Pain and other Square cafes, customers have to sort through sandwiches, chocolate chip cookies, soups and salads to get to the coffee menu. Indeed, only Coffee Connection has hitherto billed itself as a purveyor of the full-blown coffee culture...
...weakened Cubans' claims to being fugitives from political oppression; instead they are now viewed simply as poor people trying to slip through the door to American prosperity -- even as the U.S. anachronistically continues to treat Havana as it has since the late '50s and '60s: as a dangerous purveyor of subversion and Soviet expansionism...
...been variously attacked and explained by liberals as "our resident psychoanalyst," a "scared" purveyor of "hate speech," "Misinformation" and "bigotry...
Bergman's films are highly philosophical and characterized by metaphysical anguish and despair over mankind's search for meaning. Detractors dubbed Bergman the "Master of Angst," seeing him as a purveyor of the stereotypical Nordic anxiety which Norwegian painter Edward Munch punchily captured in "The Scream," recently stolen by angst-ridden environmentalists...