Word: flesh-and-blood
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...thought the traditional Jewish matchmaker went out of style with Fiddler on the Roof, SawYouAtSinai.com has 35,000 love-seeking, Orthodox Jewish singles who beg to differ. Online dating sites are nothing new, but unlike eHarmony and its nameless algorithms, SawYouAtSinai employs an army of actual, flesh-and-blood matchmakers, charged with scouring the site's database in search of potential soulmates...
...sawyouatsinai.com an army of flesh-and-blood matchmakers scours the site's database in search of potential matches for its thousands of Orthodox Jewish members. The model has been so successful that its founders are planning to replicate the service for alumni associations and non-Jewish religious groups. TIME's Adam Goodman spoke with Tova Weinberg, 54, the most popular of the site's 365 matchmakers...
...course, there are optimists who think that somehow the unicorns managed to survive, morphing, slowly over the years into the bizarre but documented flesh-and-blood narwhal, a member of the porpoise and whale family that does indeed have a single, twisty tooth which it uses for mating and to pick holes through the ice. Indeed, perhaps that's what became of the unicorns that never made it onto the ark. They took to the sea. Throughtout the centuries, the narwahl's long, corkscrewing tooth was sold as a unicorn's horn, proof that the most elusive of creatures existed...
...that Paraiso Travel doesn't also depict the uplifting immigrant success stories and the broad economic benefits the U.S. derives from its underground workforce. But what distinguishes the film is its entrancing, flesh-and-blood glimpse into the quirky, angst-ridden workings of the indocumentado world: heated kitchen-table debates back home, demeaning labor cattle calls and desperate housing improvisations in the U.S. (including makeshift rooms over loud, 24-hour racquetball courts in Queens). It's a milieu ripe with characters like a stuttering S&M photographer played with delightful understatement by Golden Globe nominee John Leguizamo (To Wong...
...shadows, effectively reducing his existence to little more than the lens of his camera. But “Diary of the Dead” is not without flaws. Despite the vérité style of filmmaking, it is difficult to believe in these characters as flesh-and-blood humans because their roles are stereotypical—or, if you prefer, archetypical. You have the buxom blonde, the serious heroine, and the hard-drinking, philosophy-spouting professor. (And yes, he has an accent, so we know to take him extra seriously.) This is the first of Romero?...