There was this alchemical idea of nigredo, the sol niger.
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It's in these spaces where Seth knows alchemical reactions occur.
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And she's got an alchemical advantage over Malek's Freddie Mercury.
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Doing so takes an alchemical mix of creativity, ambition and luck.
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The musical biography has an impossibly high degree of alchemical difficulty.
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The Tezos Foundation took in $232 million in alchemical exchange for a
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Alchemical techniques vital to the emergence of synthetic color are also considered.
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The painting evokes an abstract alchemical map of the macrocosm and the microcosm.
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This alchemical change was of course effected in the crucible of Orlando, Fla.
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This seems appropriate to ceramics, the alchemical art of earth transformed by fire.
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"The old alchemical dream was changing base metals into gold," Mr. Wolfe wrote.
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The time of day did not have an alchemical effect on calories after all.
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Each one was a magic trick, some alchemical reaction between knowledge, belief and invention.
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One night, a warm "ocean broth," made tableside, was the meal's first alchemical ritual.
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Each one details his world travels as he looked into mysterious alchemical and mythological phenomena.
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I found little in these romantic (if iconoclastic) images that was intensely alchemical or androgynous.
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While his father collected foreign mementos, Robert avidly collected alchemical books and tested their recipes.
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El Anatsui's celebrated sculptures perform nigh-alchemical transformations upon repurposed waste metals, woods, and clays.
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By what alchemical process do things in the United States become frozen at specific temporal junctions?
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It's that alchemical combination of personality, politics, pulp and pop that took "Empire" to the top.
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A new paranormal adventure series from Starz goes for an alchemical blend of superheroes and spies.
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When it works really well, there is an alchemical balance between the head and the heart.
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Mars is in seductive, alchemical Scorpio, stoking the flames of desire while intensifying the urge to merge.
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"For me, these everyday materials repurposed into art materials are alchemical and are about movement," she explains.
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The most important feature of a movie like this is the alchemical combination of the title characters.
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What's more, many of the items you can sell also have uses as cooking or alchemical ingredients.
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As long as the metal traces are Kepler's, however, the possibility that he consumed alchemical remedies remains.
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Tapping into powerful emotions through re-lived stories holds alchemical potential, but some elements require safe containers.
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But that's before a trio of late stories achieve an alchemical feat, gold-plating the collection's themes.
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The Atelier games are JRPGs focused as much on crafting of alchemical recipes as they are on combat.
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You stare at that glyph and contemplate its weird alchemical hermaphroditic enigma and realize that Prince contains multitudes.
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The androids talk of "Ozymandias" as trees dance in the wind, and of alchemical experiments in candlelit caves.
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I'm wearing this and I'm going to go out in the world and this is an alchemical experience.
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The porridge stretches each small dish and also mutates it, serving as both quiet backdrop and alchemical medium.
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I always want to find the medium between mysticism and technology, so we played with alchemical ideas as well.
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This is a delicate work, a bittersweet cabaret held together only by the alchemical relationships among the actors onstage.
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The provision about power and its alchemical ability to transmute base human behavior into the gold of institutional sexism.
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I am a pretty firm skeptic, but the time I spent with Breath of the Wild felt alchemical somehow.
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Chinese food is a prime example of the alchemical magic that results from a combination of resourcefulness and necessity.
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"Jan Svankmajer: The Alchemical Wedding" presents around 843 extraordinary artworks that give a glimpse into Mr. Svankmajer's wild imagination.
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Carrington rationalized her experiences at the asylum in terms of both her Celtic upbringing and fascination with alchemical transformation.
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" As to what the future holds for those who see art and magic as intertwined, Astral Eyes says, "Hopefully there will be a point in our lifetimes when humanity will learn to engage with our higher being, through the alchemical furnace of life-heating, dissolving, purifying, casting, and recasting our alchemical divine self.
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The show is organized in three parts: "Alchemical Creation," which displays an example of synthetic coloring matter from the Greco-Roman era; "Alchemy and Creativity," which explores how the practice of transmuting matter broadened the scope of creative expression; and "Alchemical Culture," which looks at its legacy from the Renaissance and beyond.
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Janet Laurence's art, including her alchemical works of the early 1990s, is intricate, detailed and often breathtaking in its beauty.
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It's a panorama of a diseased environment — or, given the artist's mystical slant, a record of some sinister alchemical process.
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It looks like the map of an ancient water park, but scholars suggest it might be medical or alchemical in intent.
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But despite its nefarious reputation, Scorpio is represented by four phases: The stinging Scorpion, charming serpent, soaring eagle, and alchemical phoenix.
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Kuno creates this aesthetic with an alchemical mix of graphite, watercolor paint, ink, imitation gold leaf, and paper on wooden panels.
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A 1937 chemistry set manual offers guidance for staging an alchemical magic show, with instructions for stagecraft as well as experiments.
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An alchemical ingredient was the lighting, which subtly increased as daylight waned: fabric and jewelry gleamed as if they were phosphorescent.
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From Smith, Varble learned the alchemical process of transmuting base material — the discarded, the despised, the degraded and degradable — into theater.
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Every time I replay it, it still feels like an alchemical miracle—unlikely ingredients all firing in unison to create pure bubblegum.
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First, those cells have to undergo an alchemical transformation to rejuvenate them into an ancestral form known as a pluripotent stem cell.
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Hader does something alchemical in the scene: you feel that Barry is drowning in a black lake of yearning and self-hatred.
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"There are references to beauty waters, which were botanicals extracted from an alchemical still or a tea-kettling system," Ms. Tsai said.
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There was some alchemical reaction among my disability, my father's alcoholism and the world around us that saw disability as something shameful.
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Armstrong's employer ReedPOP dominates the convention circuit, and its success is comes from an almost alchemical combination of timing, resources and audience interest.
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But what makes "Shrill" spark is the alchemical casting of Bryant, a warm, welcoming comedian from "Saturday Night Live," in the Lindy role.
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Their music was an alchemical transmutation of chronic pain, trauma, and death that had more than one audience member nodding along in recognition.
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If knowledge is power, learning more about the stock market is the alchemical path to inner peace during times of widespread economic turmoil.
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One of Almodóvar's talents is his transformational, near-alchemical use of blunt ideas, how he marshals crude gestures, gaudy flourishes and melodramatic entanglements.
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While the '60s had sci-fi, we have ASMR, with its alchemical way of turning "unremitting banality" into something sumptuous and potentially therapeutic.
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At Aska, the recently reopened Williamsburg shrine to alchemical Nordic cuisine, the only real immoderation is the sheer amount of coyly inventive food.
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I suppose there's an argument to be made about the magic of these alchemical processes, but I don't want to make that argument.
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It's an alchemical strategy—a bet that you can somehow transmute your phone from an engine of diversion into a lens of mental focus.
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Stuff becomes a conduit for understanding, and for making more sense of the wild, alchemical rush that fuels both fandom and the art itself.
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The legend of Flamel's alchemical ambitions began almost two full centuries after his death, when Livre des figures hiéroglyphiques (1612) was published under his name.
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But with so many bottles of water from so many difference places, a question seems to be whether Beuys is alone in this alchemical ability.
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Pluto is the lord of the underworld, and when it's getting along with the sun, our source of vitality, exquisite alchemical transformations can take place!
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Some of the scientists who made the most profound changes in terms of humanity—Isaac Newton, Nikola Tesla, Niels Bohr—were looking at alchemical material.
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They mine the latent energy that exists between their dual hearts, and in the process transform the essay/poem into something strange, alchemical, even unrecognizable.
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" Left: "My spring 2019 show drew on anagrams — 'Fendi' became 'Fiend' and 'Roma' became 'Amor' — alchemical symbols and the dual realms of hell and paradise.
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It's a process that dovetails with what has been happening with other metal supply chains, even those for non-critical components of the alchemical table.
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The idea of a highlighter rendering of Starry Night feels particularly poetic, especially since the OG piece is said to be an alchemical response to light.
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David Stern conducts the Juilliard Orchestra; sets are inspired by the American artist Joseph Cornell, Carl Jung's alchemical images and the Masonic lodges of New England.
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An alchemical blend of quick-witted talent, disarming thoughtfulness, and casual charm, Waithe has the coveted ability of making a character likable just by being herself.
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This is the kind of alchemical black-and-gold metal bands like Sutekh Hexen and Gnaw flirt with, distilled down into a noise-driven, tempestuous roar.
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When writers ascribed alchemical qualities to his music, they were ignoring the literal meaning of the word, the dark art of turning base metal into gold.
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" Proma Khosla, Entertainment Reporter: "Damien Chazelle unearthed the ancient forgotten spell for the perfect movie that contains the exact alchemical combination of chemistry, charisma, music and dance.
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Today, Pettibon has an ongoing and much raved about solo exhibition at the New Museum chronicling 30 years of the artist's alchemical drawings of American countercultural life.
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In a sense, this is borderless music, forged out of alchemical interactions between people but also a higher-level interaction between the communities those people make up.
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Despite the near-alchemical magic of paternity leave, only a tiny minority of American men take more than a few days off following the birth of a child.
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I have often performed this exercise, with a modicum of writerly envy, over the decades of reading his work: What exactly is the alchemical magic in these pages?
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This is the "Black Atlantic," as defined by the historian Paul Gilroy, an alchemical terrain in which Africa, America, and Europe met, merged and generated new hybrid identities.
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But Mr Jones makes a convincing case nonetheless that the alchemical partnership of Mr Webb and Campbell, boys from Oklahoma and Arkansas, reached a mysterious apotheosis in "Lineman".
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As much as it was an alchemical combination of casting, filmmaking, and originality, it was very much a product of Cabot's legwork in creating this world and these characters.
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" Yet in the early twentieth century Kandinsky, Pound, and other modernists absorbed what Silver calls "an amalgam of spiritual sources—Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, kabbalistic, alchemical, and just plain wacky.
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As soon as they saw the crowded factory floor and its dozens of artisans performing their various alchemical tasks, the couple1 knew they had the subject for her next series.
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Within moments, they were bro-ing it up about tech stuff and drinking lime-involved beverages from alchemical vessels and generally pretending there wasn't a third wheel at their table.
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And taking care of each other means finding space for each other, whether on the planet, in our communities, or in a mystical fraternal order with a quasi-alchemical bent.
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The show feels vaguely medieval in its visual and alchemical references (a silver human skull in one sculpture evokes a Renaissance memento mori or vanitas symbol), but fittingly contemporary too.
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Even back then it was apparent that she had an extraordinary, almost alchemical ability to coax these bare-bones materials into startling and at times spectacular and enthralling sculptural forms.
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Not only does Fey herself make a cameo, but the show does wonders with Broadway vet Andrea Martin and the unlikely yet alchemical combination of John Michael Higgins and Nicole Richie.
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Cheap computer power and massive datasets have given researchers alchemical powers to turn algorithms into gold, and the deep pockets (and marketing prowess) of Silicon Valley's tech giants haven't hurt either.
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In this sense, the show itself is a kind of alchemical transformation: it features work that Cordova made in Greensboro, Harlem, Skowhegan, Houston, and elsewhere, all rendered into a mystical south.
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Lon Lon Milk is the first food item Link ever consumes in the franchise, if you make the (I think fair) assumption that potions are alchemical or medicinal rather than culinary.
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The Annex by Material Lust With a dark heavy-metal aesthetic that riffs on pagan and alchemical symbolism, the founders of the design firm Material Lust know how to turn heads.
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Like Makaya McCraven, his labelmate on the tastemaking Chicago jazz label International Anthem, he's able to take alchemical live moments and turn them into something surreal through his careful studio manipulations.
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If the rebirth was quick, it wasn't predestined; it happened through a kind of alchemical futzing that aimed to convert her fleeting viral fame into something that might degrade less quickly.
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But there have been plenty of other shows, both good and terrible, that boasted all-women staffs, and few have felt like the alchemical work of genius that is Russian Doll.
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Alchemical Love at Blum & Poe is the first major exhibition of the couple's work in the US, featuring paintings from the past two years that reflect elements of magical realism and fantasy.
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In the end, the Tezos Foundation took in $232 million in alchemical exchange for a currency that did not yet exist, and, according to the fine print of the offering, might never.
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The alchemical thing about Frankel has always been how her candor and talent and up-and-down personal journey combine to create something charming and entrepreneurial – not intense, not erratic, not cruel.
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The homemade charm and alchemical mystery is enough to make this worth your while, but if and when more elements come into play, this will be a project worth following extremely closely.
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Christopher Logue, a master of anachronisms whose translations of the Iliad are collected in "War Music," experimented with "the prussic glare," which sounds alchemical, and "ash-eyed," which has a matte quality.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads PARIS — Anselm Kiefer's swashbuckling, material-laden, paint-encrusted canvases and "alchemical" vitrines supposedly transport us into thick intellectual zones of passion for German history and land.
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The genius move, the alchemical move, is to flip this from a negative to a positive, while retaining the negative as a threatening, hidden power (that becomes overt with the gun and grenade).
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The sun, our source of vitality, connects with Pluto, the planet of rebirth, also on November 13, promising an alchemical transformation in creativity, romance, and communication...if you're willing to sacrifice old patterns!
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Talbot's pioneering images—which the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library is currently in the process of digitizing—are a window into his obsessions, both alchemical and aesthetic.
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And so, in a way, this latest play might be understood not only as one of his customary thought exercises but also as a big question about the alchemical difficulties of his work.
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The orbs identify these columns as the mythic Pillars of Solomon, of interest to Johnson for their significance in Masonic lore, which includes both self-purification and the alchemical "purification" of lead into gold.
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He had an alchemical ability to transform the unwanted parts of objects — the sidings of buildings, for instance, or books salvaged from the library's pulp pile — into stages for his narratives of the everyday.
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Ms. Griffin-Black, who was raised Jewish in Pittsburgh, is the dedicated Buddhist with an abiding alchemical passion, mixing and brewing flower and plant essences in tiny glass bottles; she practices hot yoga daily.
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"This is what I believe to be the ingredient of the great alchemical dream that sits in the dung heap of civilization, as it has no place in this current system of commerce," Keyes says.
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Because the Russian company and the offshore company both belonged to the same owner, these ordinary-seeming trades had an alchemical purpose: to turn rubles that were stuck in Russia into dollars stashed outside Russia.
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Wordplay WEDNESDAY PUZZLE — David Kwong, who is also a magician, is among a group of constructors whose alchemical specialty is combining the entries and the architecture of a grid to make their puzzles multidimensional gold.
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Though she started working by herself so that she'd learn the skills she needed to thrive as an artist, doing so has allowed her to access something beyond the alchemical abstractions of her earlier work.
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The school also gave students studio space on Paros, one of the Cycladic islands of Greece, where Salonen applied what she learned about the art and history of oil painting, including techniques, pigments, smells, and alchemical processes.
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The figures and their gleaming afros loom large in the room, and the piece made me think of an astral projection brought into being under the specific alchemical circumstances of some ritual intended to call forth ancestors.
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This is not new in the history of pop music, but it underscores one of its enduring truths—there's something strange and alchemical that happens when words on the page intertwine with glossine swells of software synthesizers.
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The novel also includes vignettes of major figures from alchemical history, such as the Jin dynasty scholar Ge Hong and the Benedictine abbot Trithemius, among whom, we come to understand, Sammy and Conrad will take their places.
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Hence the disreputable allure of Péladan, who dared to speak aloud what usually remains implicit in the aesthetic sphere: belief in the artist's alchemical power, in the godlike nature of creation, in the oracular quality of genius.
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All of this hints the only way I can see us manifesting our own utopia for real, working together with those close to us, turning many voices into one, drawing deep on the alchemical power of communitarian existence.
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The Science A.F. takes the ingredients of a classic Penicillin—honey, lemon, ginger, Scotch—to their boiling and smoking alchemical extreme, with the help of a towering flask-and-fire contraption, ostensibly to infuse the drink with blueberries.
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Since then, his company has become one of the most significant players in the frenetic, almost alchemical (which is to say possibly doomed) quest to convert digital creative work into a reliable paycheck for those who produce it.
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Soucek's pulp pieces are colored by the paper itself, blended with pigment to form a soft paste, and Parrasch's ceramics attain their final color through a wealth of techniques, grounded in the alchemical processes of glazing and firing.
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Medicine can be a risky sector for startups but CB Therapeutics seems to have it as close to sewn up as one can reasonably expect; in a way it's almost alchemical, this ability to cheaply produce something so valuable.
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But aren't we grateful for the alchemical, unquantifiable mix of factors that allows this woman — embodied by this actress, at this moment, in this place — to share with us so raptly what she knows, or even thinks she knows?
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The final Popcast looking back at the music of 2018 is about the year in jazz: There was a tremendous amount of excellent music created, as well as intriguing alchemical choices made by the youngest generation of rising stars.
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The abundance of red in "The Paston Treasure" — some of which has faded — may be linked to 17th-century alchemical searches for the "red elixir," a type of Philosopher's Stone, a legendary substance for transmuting base metals into gold.
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It now has to function as a purely noir PI show, and it's pretty good at that, but the shift in genre means that it's lost some of the alchemical magic that made the original run of the show so exceptional.
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Mr. Kane leans so hard and so fearlessly — if the protesters who picketed London want shame, Mr. Kane is resplendently shameless — on his particular enthusiasms, and the mad, alchemical way he combines them, that his shows are a wonder to behold.
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Autofiction (the term was coined by the French writer and theorist Serge Doubrovsky in 1977) seeks to blend autobiography and fiction in a mysterious, almost alchemical fashion, in pursuit of a deeper truth than either mere autobiography or fiction can deliver.
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In that sense, Tana French novels are almost all love stories, by which I mean they are stories about isolated people striving for a meeting of the minds, forming alchemical partnerships of an intensity that makes no sense to civilians.
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Elsewhere, things get more literal — silhouettes of pebbles lined up like the vertebrae of a knobby spine; flashes of light bouncing off shelf-like planes; and a stylized ouroboros, whose alchemical redolence dates back to ancient Egypt, signaling the artworks' subterranean historicism.
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His 1659–83 book of alchemical, home remedy, and even cooking (such as his mother-in-law's "Nourishing Broth") recipes, recently acquired by Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, has concoctions for "colors for oyles" alongside his experiments on the Midas touch.
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Art historically, Fernandez's slightly sadomasochistic and obsessively erotic semi-abstract paintings of constrained body parts fit into the context of mannerist (or decadent) late Surrealism, which delighted in degradation by interpreting it as an act of alchemical transmutation delivering transgressive freedom from puritanical imposition.
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When I see the show taped a few nights later, before a raucous live studio audience, it's hard to say what alchemical magic has been performed — a few lines tweaked here, a few reactions tightened up there — but everything really is that much better.
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"Nate is a brilliant storyteller and sound artist who has a unique capacity to make facts, stories, objects, and ideas fluoresce through an alchemical mixture of words, music, and incredibly attenuated and subtle sense of timing," said Limor Tomer, the general manager of MetLiveArts.
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Here are four — designers of jewelry, lingerie, flowers and interiors — who incorporate color in their work with particular imagination and verve, and who believe in color as an alchemical force: one with the ability to change a space, a mood or even a mind-set.
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But he knows there are certain locker rooms with the right alchemical makeup to learn to love the road's disadvantages, as his team did in 2005, when the Steelers were 9-1313 on the road and chose to wear road jerseys in the Super Bowl.
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When a book comes to life in a reader's imagination, the reader is changed, and so the fictional world enters the world of reality in a profound alchemical reaction that changes the nature of reality itself, though not in the way Father Rehill imagines.
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"The significance of the manuscript is that it helps us understand Newton's alchemical reading -- especially of his favorite author -- and gives us evidence of one more of his laboratory procedures," said James Voelkel, curator of rare books at the Chemical Heritage Foundation's Othmer Library of Chemical History.
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This engaging and regal practice is more about the elevation of materials through the deft skill of the artist, the surprise discovery that something so civilized and lovely could be made from simple origins on the strengths of the alchemical magic of what an artist does.
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Brafman, an associate curator of rare books, worked with Rhiannon Knol to find over 100 objects from across the collections of the Getty Research Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum "that manifested the application of alchemical techniques to art," going back to the 3rd century BCE.
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It's just not true though, and the alchemical fusion of digital and media into our modern "digital media" hellscape is still predicated on a fundamental mistake: that somehow media can be made to look like software, and all we need is "foresight" and "innovation" to bridge the divide.
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Schmidt's physical rendering of Ever's stiffness is committed and revelatory (as Dustin Cross's costumes make perhaps too clear), and he marries that with his easy comic timing and the alchemical ability to make Ever deeply sensitive, in his own way, amid both the jokes and his personal evolution.
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They discovered everything from Renaissance-era books that illustrate divine creation as a metaphor for art making, to the 20-foot long "Ripley Scroll" from the 18th century that features curious alchemical symbolism, including the "philosophers' stone," said to have the power to transform materials, like mercury into gold.
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They're all armed with the same tools, too: Charts that show the historical ups and downs of the market, and an esoteric language so dense that its terms make reading price trends seem almost alchemical: The ascending triangle, the abandoned baby, the cup and handle, and the death cross.
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Through the two-step gelatin dye transfer process of the Verifax Kodak copier, Berman was able to fuse several mediums that had long interested him into a precursor of digital painting and copy art: photography, collage, and printing merge into an alchemical graphic art about magical metamorphosis and theatrical transformation.
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Best known for playing a warrior in the most recent cycle of "Star Wars" movies, Ridley is an attractive, physically confident performer who has enough of that certain alchemical something — a persona that lights up the frame, an auric presence — that she can both hold the screen and your attention.
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I'll also be setting aside some time to visit 27 Greenpoint Avenue, which is home to the playful, almost-figurative paintings and sculptures of Emily Noelle Lambert, the colorfully geometric compositions of Kristen Schiele, the enigmatic and autobiographic sculptural assemblages of Stephen Eakin, and the beguiling, alchemical sculptures of Mariana Garibay Raeke.
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Last year, he went to London and recorded some alchemical jams with a host of that scene's finest, as an attempt to further demonstrate that in-the-moment exchanges, in all their awkwardness and discomfort have the power to cross the borders we draw between ourselves on both personal and socio-political levels.
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I was struck by a particular sequence in this film, and by the way she had the audacity to juxtapose the high modernist cinema of Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Avventura with the poet Farid ud-Din Attar's Medieval Persian epic The Conference of the Birds, effectively transmuting the Antonioni film into an alchemical Sufi glamour tale.
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Complicating matters is the following: As the group slowly makes its way through Europe, Monty scrambles to find a way to save them from the people who want the alchemical device, to keep the party alive with no money and few resources, and to save Percy, ideally while winning his heart in the process.
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Similar "hand" works blended by a quasi-magical or alchemical operation appear in Berman's marvelous underground film "Aleph" (1956–66), in which, as in the collages, he uses Hebrew letters (though he was not religious and did not read the language) to frame a hypnotic, rapid-fire noise montage that conjures up the gritty energy of the '60s underground.
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"While our show is less interested in the specifically spiritual and religious aspects of alchemical history, the history of alchemy is essentially a history of seekers: that is, experimenters seeking after the secrets of nature and looking for ways to bend natural matter to the will of the human imagination, for the creation of art as well as the perfection of the body," Brafman explains.
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