What does DE stand for?

Director Alex De Rakoff does better than he did in his catastrophic debut, The Calcium Kid, and the scenes where Blethyn and Davis are allowed to be a double act are surprisingly classy; but too much of the script seems to have been pieced together from discarded episodes of Minder, cliches are rife, and there's an amateurish deus ex machina ending that defies belief.

The star, however, is the unassuming Jeff Clarke, a deus ex machina as deviser, stage director and musical director.

They met at Deus Ex Machina in Parramatta Rd, Camperdown, with Bloom riding there on his new customised road bike turned hill climber, the Deus SR400, which cost him 20,000 dollars, reports the Daily Telegraph.

One of the most notable in the last few years, Deus Ex, received huge acclaim, but times have moved on and so have expectations.

Deus ex machina Because we were good at entanglements, but not Resolution, and made a mess of plot, Because there was no other way to fulfil The ancient prophesy, because the will Of the gods demanded punishment, because Neither recognized who the other was, Because there was no difference between A tragic ending and a comic scene, Because the play was running out of time, Because the mechanism of the sublime Was in good working order, but needed using, Because it was a script not of our choosing, Because we were actors, because we knew for a fact We were only actors, because we could not act.

For one thing, their telecarb never seems to work when it is most needed--a great plot device that keeps it from becoming an annoying deus ex machina.

9004151028 A deus ex machina revisited; Atlantic colonial trade and European economic development.

The show, Deus Ex Machina, will go ahead as planned tonight, starting at 10pm.