Word: alchemists
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...Kentucky Colonel Harland Sanders, the goateed alchemist who turned fried chicken into gold, is trying to build a new chain of franchised restaurants. They are to be called "Claudia Sanders 'the Colonel's Lady' Dinner Houses"-so named after Sanders' wife, who is said by associates to be "as sweet as the Colonel is cantankerous." The sitdown restaurants will be quite different from the Kentucky Fried Chicken carry-outs that first made Colonel Sanders a household name. For one thing, a patron will be able to buy lobster-if Sanders can sell franchises...
...after all, can you stretch convenience and still have people believe that a Harvard-Johns Hopkins-trained psychiatrist-turned-priest just happens to have done research on witchcraft? Since when has superstition invaded the sciences? Since The Exorcist, where superstition is the sense of the world. This is the alchemist's vision resurrected in a historical vacuum...
Leslie H. Whitten is the lead investigative reporter for columnist Jack Anderson and author of The Alchemist...
...Mass with a man in a human-skin cape, be privy to a grave robbing or pornographic home movie co-starring a U.S. Vice President, and (perhaps most obscene of all) listen to the tape of a Roman Catholic's bugged confession. Yet behind such lubricious props, The Alchemist is a brisk, semi-tough study of power and love, the intoxications of public life and non-negotiable private satisfactions...
...hero is Martin Dobecker, a nonpracticing lawyer and ex-husband in his early 30s, unusual only in that he is building an alchemist's furnace in his basement. He is diverted from these diversions by Anita Tockbridge, a 45-year-old Assistant Secretary of Labor still on her way up. When Martin becomes her speechwriter and lover, the author has a fine time singing the praises of older women as well as brushing off the old myth that it is the male who is driven by power and the female who seeks security and love...