Word: alchemistic
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...clear the board, you move up to the next harder level with more colors and symbols. The higher you go, the harder it gets--and the more exalted the rank you achieve when at last you lose. Not to brag, but I have got as high as Alchemist third degree, which is one rank above Grand Wizard. And two above my wife...
...imagine the pitch meeting for this project. Or the nervous marketing meetings that follow. Better still, imagine yourself at the earliest possible showing of L.A. Confidential, watching alchemist-director Curtis Hanson (who shares screenwriting credit with Brian Helgeland) turn pulpmeister James Ellroy's brutal, bustling novel into something like cinematic gold...
...very clear how much they value the spiritual over the material. Thus, while the Body Shop's perfumes are named after fruits, those in Origins are dubbed "Spirits of the Night," "Spirits of the Gardens," "Spirits of the Sun" and "Spirits of the Forest," tastefully arranged in four big alchemist's bottles filled with leafy herbal stuff. Unfortunately, there didn't seem to be any testers, so I was unable to commune with the spirits...
Berlin. What a garrison of spies! what a playground for every alchemist, miracle worker and rat-piper that ever took up the cloak...
...more than 1 million investors, Peter Lynch was a magician, a modern alchemist who transmuted their modest savings into solid wealth. Since Lynch began running the then tiny Fidelity Magellan fund in 1977, its shares have surged 25-fold in value -- far more than the fourfold gain for the Dow Jones industrial average during the same period or the increase for any other mutual fund. Lynch, 46, built Boston-based Magellan from a $22 million operation into a $13.3 billion monster, the world's biggest and most celebrated fund. And he did it the old-fashioned way, through 13-hour...