Haehwa is an ethnically Korean woman who, born and raised in China, moves to South Korea to pursue a matched marriage with a rural worker in the province.
In Hans Memling's matched marriage portraits of the Bruges banker Tommaso di Folco Portinari and his bride, Maria, the couple — he was almost 40, she was 14 — appear to face each other with prayerfully folded hands, as if marriage were a matter of mutual worship.
A part written by one contributor, for example, produces pretty reports, while other parts, written by other people, can comb through accumulated data and perform what Mr. Allingham calls a "sanity check" by flagging factors like ages that do not match, marriages or births involving people too young or too old, and other obvious glitches.
He put my hand in Peter's, and he said, 'Dear, I have matched many marriages.' " Ms. Kistler seemed to wear her Balanchine legacy lightly.
Theirs is a deeply conservative society, in which couples still are matched in arranged marriages.
Social Security only requires verbal confirmation from both spouses, as long as their allegations match the marriage information furnished on their respective applications.
He described himself as a "live-and-let-live person" and said his views on same-sex marriage matched those of President Obama.
His balance of self-deprecation with spotlight-seeking shamelessness is matched by his marriage of Southern manners (every woman's name is prefixed by "Miss") with trash-talking salaciousness.
Is it old news, new news, news at all? Whoever reads histories of American religion, newspaper records, folk-tales, and fiction knows that virtually no "doctrine," certainly none other native to America, matched Mormon "plural marriage" in the public mind.
