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...Mind Works offers a smooth and surprisingly pleasant ride over some pretty rugged intellectual terrain, it is because Pinker writes in the same breezy style that brightens his classroom lectures. He likes to quote Mae West ("Men like women with a past because they hope history will repeat itself") and Woody Allen ("I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics"), along with linguist Noam Chomsky, artificial-intelligence guru Marvin Minsky and, of course, Charles Darwin. Pinker has a showman's sense for knowing "when to hold his reader's attention with an illustration or a joke," observed...
...other name, a separate product from the Windows desktop, and thus subject to anti-trust law. It's now up to the courts; but the early betting on Wall Street was that there's very little that the boys from Redmond can't buy/bully their way out of. A pleasant earnings reports at day's end left Microsoft stock up 1/4 at 132 1/2. Rival browser-pusher Netscape was up 4 5/16 after a early $6 rise...
...just a matter of time before the champagne bottle pops and, in Disneyesque fashion, all sorts itself out. Dermott, as one of two esteemed and veteran matchmakers, who are constantly battling one another, makes it his 24 hour mission in this tiny hamlet to bring people together in a pleasant way. As he says on his home video (one of the movie's oddly anachronistic touches): "I am a maker of matches, the human kind"--that's for clarity's sake--"where people get together, get married and live happily ever after." He then proceeds to reassure his viewers that...
...film has all that is needed for a pleasant romance, with parts updated for the 90's: beautiful aerial shots of virginal countryside, infidelity, political corruption, sibling rivalry, alienation, death, etc. It has the necessary passionate love scene, the anguished drunk lover's "let's destroy the car" scene, the rushing to the airport to find your lover's already flown away scene and a prudent number of idyllic walks by the sea shore...
Essentially, The Matchmaker is a pleasant yet hackneyed film in which a young American leaves America to find herself, community and, yes, undiluted love. As might be expected, the screenplay is no chef d'oeuvre, nor the acting heart-stopping. But it fulfills its purpose as a genial love story with an exotically back-to-one's-roots setting for its never-never land...