Word: deus
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...effect it should have on a receptive audience. No film with an ambition this large, and achievement this impressive, can be anything but exhilarating. Coming on the next-to-last day of a mostly glum festival, Synecdoche, New York is like a surprise happy ending. This is a deus ex machina - a miracle movie...
...Deus Ex Machina...
...George W. Bush is this movie's deus ex machina. As played by James Adomian, he instantly bonds with the guys, so happy is he to find someone to do weed with. He also offers some sage advice: "You don't have to believe in your government to be a good American. You just have to believe in your country." Both films, ultimately, also believe that Americans can benefit by learning the worst and the weirdest about themselves. By that standard, Harold and Kumar are pothead patriots in the first feel-good torture film. And Errol Morris deserves the Medal...
...semantically fused with the word ‘superlative’ (in phrases like “the Harvard of JavaScript Training”) makes it difficult to step around this predefined assumption. So prospective students come to silently accept the assumption that Harvard is life’s deus ex machina, and they themselves are enshrined acolytes of this superhuman community. Harvard ceases to be a mere institution and becomes a destiny. And destiny is a difficult thing to keep in perspective...
...John Paul II's enforcer of orthodoxy, he condemned errant personal behavior among the Catholic faithful, and reined in dissident Church theologians. Now, as pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI spends most of his time trying to convince his followers to say yes to the Christian gospel. Indeed his one Encyclical, Deus Caritas Est (God is Love), surprised some of his longtime critics by the positive note on which he was beginning his now two-year-old papacy. There have, though, been intermittent reminders that the old Ratzinger thinking lives on inside the person of the Pope, including his message...