Word: purveyor
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...move came soon after its owners, American Express and Warner Communications, made an initial public offering of 5.1 million shares of MTV stock. The video purveyor now hopes to make many of its new investors loyal viewers as well...
More than a mere purveyor of his multi-cultural heritage. Haviaras rewrites history...
Almost as influential as Spiegel on the left is Stern, which is both the most widely read of West Germany's four major pictorial magazines and the only one with serious, if erratic, journalistic ambitions. Stern was thrust into international notoriety in April as the publisher and purveyor of forged diaries purportedly written by Adolf Hitler. The diaries fiasco, which led to the ouster of two top editors, has cost the magazine about 10% of its circulation, an estimated $3.8 million in circulation and advertising income, and much of its credibility among fellow reporters...
Private detectives hired by the magazine helped unmask Mrs. DeBoyer as the mastermind of the forgery and her daughter as the willing purveyor of the deceitful goods. Minor signed a statement that was not quite a confession, but near enough to close the case. Her mother had composed the letters, she admitted, but had received the messages from the spirits of Lincoln and Rutledge while in a trance. Claimed Minor: "The spirits of Ann and Abe were speaking through my mother to me, so that my gifts as a writer combined with her gifts as a medium could hand...
King is the novelist of middle America. Anyone who sells as many books as he does and writes about the eerie topics he chooses--vampires, ghosts, mad dogs--is usually tossed off by the critics as a purveyor of supermarket literature. But King pays no attention to those effete reviewers concerned with literary value; he knows that everyone goes to the supermarket...