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...product of late-night improv sessions but a gift from the heavens. As much as this confirms our most delectable suspicion that even the real Matt and Ben can’t be for real (ok, I’m speaking for myself here), it is also the deus ex machina that sets in motion a test of friendship that jumps from one joke to the next, happily with little room for sentimentality...
...opening ceremony, since word had already leaked out that Thanou was going to be one of the final torch bearers and Kenteris was going to light the Olympic flame. Instead, Nikos Kaklamanakis, a gold medalist in sailing, got the honor. He touched his small flame to a giant, deus ex machina contraption bent over the stadium as if it was getting a light for a cigarette. Very European, that...
...Donovan's output represents a trend in the industry that troubles even some insiders--namely, the lack of truly thoughtful games or any with emotional resonance. "Our plots are all power fantasies for 14-year-old boys," says Warren Spector, creator of the conspiracy-theory game Deus Ex. "Why is our business so firmly rooted in adolescent nonsense? Does every game have to be the equivalent of a Bruckheimer production? Where is our Lost in Translation...
...GREENHOUSE? The new glass-and-steel roof over the Olympic stadium, some fear, will have spectators sweating with the sprinters DEUS EX OLYMPIA The 2004 mascots, Athena and Phevos, have offended a group that still worships the ancient gods. It has sued the Athens committee for $2.85 million...
...candidacy was an exception for most of the summer, but he has spent much of September stepping on his epaulets, too. What's a pundit--or a despairing Democratic member of Congress--to do? I have covered eight presidential campaigns, and the answer is always the same: find a deus ex machina. In my time, these have ranged from Jerry Brown (1976) to Ralph Nader to Lee Iacocca to Mario Cuomo to Al Gore (1992, when Clinton seemed to be stumbling) to Ross Perot. Most were wise enough to stay away; those who jumped in failed...