Word: deus
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...toilet so prominently displayed in Macheath's cell, but to elicit a weak laugh when he sits on it, saying, "One must live well to know what living is." Why must a bed, clearly relevent to Macheath's character, be lowered majestically, with all the sensational aspect of a Deus ex machina, rather than be wheeled on or revealed? This confusion of prupose is at the core of this conflict between the classical and epic theater...
...battled Oh Calcutta! and the judges who smothered Caligula, President Carter and Associates have been searching for a way to close the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's smash hit. An attempt to airlift the 53 performers en masse from the theater wings failed when a pulley strap of the deus ex machina snagged on a piece of scenery...
...Alice Deus Hammond...
...Alice Deus Hammond...
...their graves. It will not be an act of inhospitality, mind you (even in death they are too well-bred for that), simply one of incredulity that in the land of the Bean and the Cod, he who is called Summus Pontifex, Vicarius Petri, Servus Servorum Dei, Dominus Deus, Nostra Papa, and addressed as Sanctissime Pater should be here. Their amazement is only matched...