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...cross-country to destroy every copy of the poem, bringing in tow Helen's assistant Mona, a hippie-ish "witch," and Mona's eco-ranting boyfriend Oyster, the most comically egregious tagalong since that sourpuss hitchhiker picked up by Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces. (Oyster describes Johnny Appleseed, who spread non-native plant life, as "a f______ biological terrorist.") All the while Carl struggles with his impulse to wipe out everybody in his path who annoys him. Because his path runs through barroom blowhards and rude librarians, to say nothing of Oyster, that's a lot of folks...
...Walk and Conga Line--virtually require. No laid-back lullabies, these beat-heavy, infectious numbers demand nonstop waving, shaking, stomping and singing along. The effect can be therapeutic. "I had a little guy in class who was so quiet and shy, I thought he had a speech impediment," says Mona Kolodzie, a kindergarten teacher at John Muir Elementary School in Contra Costa County, Calif. "Once he heard Greg & Steve, he started coming out of his shell. At first he'd just watch the other kids, but soon he was smiling, and by the end of the year, he was singing...
Egyptian-born Mona Baker, a professor at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, said Saturday that she had dismissed Miriam Shlesinger of Bar Ilan University and Gideon Toury of Tel Aviv University from two journals she owns because they are Israeli...
...plastic building bricks. The music video for the White Stripes' Fell in Love with a Girl uses animation to re-create the band out of Legos. Lego art is also hot, with collectors commissioning mosaics and sculptures from artists like Eric Harshbarger for upwards of $800, including the Mona Lisa done in the form. And then there are the websites devoted to Lego creations. At thebricktestament.com Lego fan Brendan Powell Smith has faithfully re-created 50 stories from the Bible using only Legos. There are also sites devoted to Lego depictions of Lord of the Rings and scenes from Shakespeare...
...Mona, then, a novel about “the invention of ethnicity,” displays Jen’s ability to turn the expected on its head...