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Another domestic mammal has the lead in Michael Patrick Hearn's The Porcelain Cat (Little, Brown; $12.95). A medieval sorcerer wants to bring a feline statue to life. For that he needs an ingredient not sold in stores: basilisk blood. Out goes his assistant, a boy destined to encounter a witch and a centaur before he brings about the ironic ending. Hearn has obviously been spending time with the Greek myths, but his narrative is modernized with paintings by Leo and Diane Dillon, who know a few enchantments of their...
...plot: the naked body of the President's chief of staff is found in a bathtub at the Hay-Adams Hotel. Which soaped-up Washington wife was with him when he hit the porcelain, and whom will President Kane (Dean's maiden name) appoint to replace him? Who cares? Fictional names and events are mixed up with the names of real people and actual events, and what comes out is slicker than lip gloss...
...dives in the submersible Nautile. The salvagers used two remote manipulator arms to pluck objects from the ocean floor and place them in a collecting basket. There were, notes Keranflech, "strange anomalies -- a silver plate still as bright as if it had just been polished. Crystal glasses, beautiful porcelain plates and cups. When we brought them to the surface, ; everyone rushed up to see. We wanted to expose them to the air as little as possible, but it would have been criminal not to let the crew see them." Recalls Robert Chappaz, who helped secure financing for the mission...
...face of the lucrative world of media scams. The media is the best way to quickly amass large sums of the American people's money, as evidenced by the triumphant "Slim Whitman" album offers, the enormous wealth of the Televangelist Beggars, and the successful peddling of anything made of porcelain...
...would have it, the coffers are nearly empty. There is no more maid service, and PTL is to cut off all money as of June. Even so, the house is still redolent of wealth: the shiny black Schaefer & Sons grand piano with a golden candelabrum on top, the Chinese porcelain tea service, the collection of figurines, the bodyguards and bustling assistants. If the Bakkers are running dry, it certainly doesn't show...