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...things considered, Tan Dun doesn't have much to complain about these days. The only thing that seems to exasperate him is when pigeonhole-happy journalists, mistaking him for yet another purveyor of souvenir-shop local color, claim that his music "brings East and West together." Nothing doing, Tan replies. "No East anymore, no West anymore. My purpose is to be flexible and freely flying around among all kinds of experience. Not to be driven by the wave of culture--fashion, trends, isms, schools--but to create my own unity...
...threw for the past two years in South Beach (where guests included everyone from Calvin Klein to Rosie O'Donnell), he might decamp to a gay club called the Warsaw Ballroom with a small group of friends to watch male dancers perform. But he was known as a quiet purveyor of the scene, a man who avoided drugs and heavy drinking. "I once proposed that we go out," recalls his friend Janie Samet, a French fashion writer, "and he remarked, 'You can go to a restaurant if you want, but things are always better at home...
DETROIT: St. Ides Brewing Co., purveyor of malt liquor in large bottles, has stopped distributing its product Special Brew Freeze and Squeeze, because of reports that a New York store was selling it to minors. The product, essentially a Slurpee with 6 percent alcohol content, sells for about a dollar and is packaged in brightly-lettered soft plastic pouches. St. Ides president Minott Wessinger denied the product was developed with any Joe Camel-like intentions. "We took the necessary steps to identify that this product was an alcoholic beverage, and listed this fact not just once, but four times...
...award-winning ad touts a pair of reinforced rompers by Healthtex, a leading purveyor of juvenile apparel. But the folks who dreamed up the campaign work neither on Madison Avenue nor in the giant agencies of Los Angeles or Chicago. Instead they labor in, of all places, Richmond, Va. Situated among tobacco warehouses and antiques stores, the Martin Agency was once known for regional work, such as its "Virginia is for lovers" campaign. But recently Martin snagged a $55 million account for Saab cars away from a New York City agency; Coca-Cola is another client. Billings...
Galbraith has published widely in the areas of Keynesian and post-Keynesian economics and has been an active and outspoken purveyor of lib- INGeral ideology during the second half of the century...