Welfare weds single mothers to the public weal freeing fathers to carouse like feral cats.

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And the movie hits a bad bump when it weds the celebration of a free spirit to anti-sexist melodrama.

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Newly weds who would like to celebrate by visiting a famous site, such as the Taj Mahal, can make virtual tours instead.

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The 42-year-old princess of pop will also wear a dress designed by Stella McCartney when she weds British film director Guy Ritchie on December 22, the website said.

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It weds the oral culture of his unlettered mother (the dedicatee of all his books) to an omnivorous bibliophilia encouraged by his stepfather, a hotel receptionist in Pointe-Noire on the Atlantic coast.

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It gives newly-weds first dibs on housing.

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How that downfall came about would have made an engaging story in itself, but Allen passes it by, preferring to focus on the sweet, tractable, and altogether fantastical Southern teen-ager (Evan Rachel Wood) whom Boris finds sheltering on his doorstep, takes reluctant pity on, and weds.

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