Word: yenta
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...outfit Staunton in a housedress that is gargantuanly padded in the bosom and butt is to force an exceptional actress into unintended parody, and to reduce the Holocaust-survivors generation to Borscht Belt jokes. Staunton has made a long trip south from Oscar-nominated actress to Vera Drake, yenta...
...There are stretches when the animal trio's westward trek packs no more excitement or amusement than a Presidential candidates slog through the prairie-state primaries. Mittens' yenta-like attitude can get grating, and for a while Rhino is the only character with much wit or verve...
...Your Yenta...
However, not all arranged marriage is reminiscent of an old Yenta. The aged matchmaker who would travel around a town to match up young lovers has been replaced by complicated algorithms. We live in the technology age, and computers now affect everything from grocery shopping to research to…polygamous relationships? PolyMatchMaker.com promises plural dating, opportunities for those interested in polygamous relationships. For the more traditional sorts, matchmaker.com sets up two-person relationships, and promises that “by the time you meet, you know...
...Just Lunch are popping up around the country like valentines in J. Lo's mailbox. The Matchmaking Institute, which offers the nation's first certification course for would-be Cupids, opened in October and is attracting students from as far away as Singapore. It helps that the modern-day yenta looks less like Sylvia Miles in Crossing Delancey and more like Alicia Silverstone in NBC's Miss Match: young, attractive and a long way from loserdom--just like her clients. Hey, even Paula Abdul is rumored to have met her boyfriend through a matchmaker...