Word: machina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...source of the gloom was not new. In the past eight years, labor disputes have four times brought the Met to the brink of disaster. In 1961 its opening was ensured at the last moment deus ex machina (when President Kennedy intervened). But this time, New Yorkers were realizing with shock, there might be no opening at all. Worried, tired and gaunt, Met General Manager Rudolf Bing told TIME, "We don't know where to go. It is now a matter of life and death...
...surrealistic daze, Fidelman moves on to Venice, letting himself in for another of those tormenting Malamud women whose specialty is interrupted coition. The woman's homosexual husband, Beppo, interrupts this time to seduce Fidelman from his wife -and from art. Beppo is a truly queer dens ex machina; yet Malamud clearly intends him for the role. It is Beppo, in fact, who finally gives Fidelman the word on his "painter's progress": "After twenty years if the rooster hasn't crowed she should know she's a hen." And it is Beppo who points instructively...
...Succeed details the rise of one J. Pierrepont Finch from nowhere to family and fortune, aided by a get-rich-quick book plus a bravely installed deus ex machina. This time around, one Pope Brock gives life to Finch, and he does so with a modicum of class. Brighter lights, on the other hand, shine to every side, not the least of which is Timothy Hall as J. B. Biggley, the boss of World-Wide Wickets where Finch is employed. Hall handles a considerably larger portion of the show's laughs than did Rudy Vallee in the B'way original...
Field Agents. If Rockefeller somehow succeeds in getting the nomination, his Miami Beach miracle could work to McCarthy's benefit because the Democrats might well have second thoughts with Rockefeller as an adversary. Like Rockefeller, McCarthy needs a deus ex machina. Like Rockefeller, he is trying to help Providence in a number of ways. His organization has proclaimed a "Month for McCarthy," a high-powered drive involving the dispersal of 55 field agents around the country to build up pressure on delegates. Telephone and letter-writing campaigns are being aimed at convention-bound Democrats. Lawsuits are being planned in some...
...China, which the proponents of the Vietnam conflict for a while bravely pictured as the deus ex machina, is rent within itself. Its assumed puppet in Hanoi, likes its earlier puppet in North Korea, has publicly asserted its independence. Not even the most ardent defender of the war can now believe that Hanoi wants to be part of a Chinese-led empire...