Word: alchemist
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...Calgari, the Mummy, and even Frankenstein are gone. In their place are The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The Thing, and Lobo. In The Bride of the Monster, one of Bela Lugosi's last movies, the virile fiend of Dracula has become a rather prosaic old alchemist. It is as if Lugosi, like Varnoff, had at last capitulated to the modern emphasis on drawing the blood from healthy vampires...
...Fields of Praise. Among modern writers, Kazantzakis is a unique literary alchemist. As a master mythologizer, he constructs a plot not unlike an old-fashioned American western, and then fills it with a strange power and plausibility...
...alchemist's laboratory full of bubbling test tubes and retorts to intrigue the audience, and the apparition of a beauteous brunette to tease the hero...
...Alchemist. In Orlando, Fla., facing a forgery charge for boosting a check, Clarence Hickey, 25, pleaded magic, explained that a fortune teller had sprinkled a pile of white powder on the check which instantly increased its worth from...
...birth and that will last throughout our lives, remaining as shiny and sturdy as ever. When that day arrives the Colgate people will have to leave chlorophyll to the plants, and the dentist, perhaps the least enjoyed appendage of modern civilization, will at last go the way of the alchemist...