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...know that 60 percent of adults in France do not know who painted the Mona Lisa?" Knowles wrote in an e-mail message. "Or that in this country, 27 percent of adults think that the sun goes round the earth, and 36 percent believe that radioactivity is made safe by boiling...
...them and don't know what they're for, then you're in trouble!" When I told my daughter I felt like a klutz, she said, "Don't worry, Mom, you've misplaced things and been a klutz for 40 years! Nothing has changed!" What a reassuring put-down! MONA MOFFAT Fort Myers...
Always playing with the crowd, Guster's final song was inspired by a cardboard sign reading "MONA LISA," a track from their first album _Parachute_. Perhaps proving the tact of the decision to keep Brian behind the bongos rather than the mike, Ryan relinquished his position of lead vocals for most of the song. While Brian's rather off-key voice had more than a slight waver, the crowd didn't hesitate to sing right along with this unexpected lead, capping off a great night. Any questions about the appropriateness of the Run-Guster combination, it seemed, had been...
...Convinced that you were born too late to have any real fun? Then take a stroll to the Leverett Old Library for an adaptation of Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land. The play combines the exclusivity of suburbia with the funky oddness of the 70s and layers a coming-of-age story with issues of race relations and religion, depicting the trials and travails of an Asian-American female who must cope with the pressure of growing up in an all-white suburb. Performances are Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Saturday...
Irony is a mode unknown to Peter Steinfeld and Nick Gomez, respectively the writer and director of Drowning Mona. They take the citizens of Verplanck, N.Y., as they find them, which is to say none too bright. All you need to know about this small town is that it was once a test market for the Yugo, and most of the citizenry still happily get about in decrepit versions of that universally unloved...