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...family the year before, and ended with a tearful reconciliation and some moralistic repentance by Pop. Insight's producer, Paulist Father Ellwood Kieser, charges that much religious programming is marred by "superficial ideology," "shallow psychology," and-he cannot resist the pun-excessive reliance on the deus ex machina...
...frontier. They do not mind being "funky," that is, casual, deliberately corny, explorers of the American vernacular. In the ambiance of the gadget, the dragster with painted flames in its exhausts, the never-closed supermarket with motorized shopping cars, the West Coast artist has become his own deus ex machina. They are part-optimistic, part-spooky gardeners in a garish no man's land between art and reality. Like the man who built the Watts Towers, they might, when finished, just move away and never come back...
POLLARD GARRISON Los Angeles Clear case of Jeremiah (5:22) ex machina...
Dinner, alas, is served-feathers and all. Carroll swoops down on Station Six like a dea ex machina: a dea wearing ermine and riding in a 1958 machina called a Mercury. All this in the central Sahara, mind, and no explanations offered. The spectator can only assume that the lady came to the wrong oasis-she was looking, maybe, for the one on Sunset Strip...
...booth, CBS tried a new vertical arrangement in contrast to the horizontal give-and-take of Huntley and Brinkley. CBS's congenial Walter Cronkite carried all the burden of coordinating CBS's coverage, while Eric Sevareid would appear every so often as a kind of deus ex machina and deliver auroral analyses uninhibited by routine details, or a shaft of wit, as when he recalled H. L. Mencken's description of a convention orator as coming from "a home for extinct volcanoes...