Word: deus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...journey unencumbered by family or things or even destination. Rooted to the little town of Clarion, where she was born, Charlotte sees her life "rolling out in front of her like an endless, mildewed rug." What she needs, she declares, is a "wilderness course." It is provided by a deus ex machina, played by a prison escapee, Jake Simms Jr., a self-described "victim of impulse." When Simms holds up a bank, Charlotte becomes a victim of irony-a hostage without the walking shoes she has hoarded for her trip. The flight to Florida does not produce the expected liberation...
...April 24, 1964, a bright spring day, President Lyndon B. Johnson descended on the Kentucky hills in a helicopter, a deus ex Washington, vowing to wage war on poverty. As the air and the rhetoric swirled, one native bystander held onto his hat and declared: "Well, he'll sure as hell have a real bad fight on his hands...
...held 105 hostages-mostly Israeli-at Uganda's Entebbe Airport. Now, with time rapidly slipping away and the deadline merely hours off, death seemed ever more certain for the terrified captives. Then suddenly, in what in a different age would have been called the act of a deus ex machina, three Israeli C-130 Hercules transports, guns flaring, appeared in the dark sky over the airport. Soon they touched down, disgorging about 100 paratroopers and infantrymen and powerful armored personnel carriers...
...that bargain is in effect the unintended heritage of the Xerox machine. Since its perfection less than two decades ago, the green-eyed deus ex machina has helped alter the course of history and changed forever the daily rhythms of white-collar life. The photocopier has, its detractors say, fostered waste, encouraged sloth, stifled creativity and punched holes in the copyright laws. Bureaucrats complain that the machine now makes confidential exchanges all but impossible; foes of official secrecy complain that fear of Xerox-abetted leaks has made bureaucrats more secretive than ever. Whatever the complaint, in view of the social...
...DEUS NO CEU, SAVIMBI EM ANGOLA (God is in heaven, Savimbi is in Angola), reads the graffito on the front wall of the former Governor's Palace in Silva Porto. Slogans extolling the virtues of UNITA and its leader are scrawled on walls throughout this small, colonial town in the Angolan highlands. Most of the Portuguese who once lived in the neat concrete houses with red tile roofs have long since fled the country. Squatters who carefully maintain the lawns and flower beds now live in many of these homes. The Portuguese left Silva Porto taking all the city...