Word: nostril
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...team is training, Gazza suffered a panic attack when the sense of dislocation overwhelmed him. It was all too much, the motorbikes laden with squawking ducks bound for market, the green-tiled temples rising in the distance and the men blowing spheroids of snot straight onto the street one nostril at a time. "I thought, s---, I'm going to get stuck in this bloody ghost town forever," he says, hands tearing a napkin to shreds in his lap. "At that moment I thought: I have to get out of here...
...decadent, it's a bit unsettling that TIME would devote eight pages to a puff piece about the cosmetic contributions to humanity made by Tom Cruise--a man so dedicated to acting that he is willing to learn the remarkable skill of blowing a single underwater bubble with one nostril. How impressive! MARK BRUNER Chippewa Lake, Ohio...
...polite, on time and always prepared, Hollywood's eagle scout. His not-so-secret craving is for control, starting with himself but not ending there. For one crucial scene in Minority Report, Cruise was required to submerge himself in a bathtub, then emit a solitary air bubble from one nostril. "Don't worry if you can't do it," Spielberg told him. "I can do it with [special effects]." Cruise insisted on doing it himself. "I kept practicing," says Cruise, sitting next to Spielberg in an office on the Fox lot. "I had to figure...
...camels lope up to the start line, men shouting, animals bellowing. The riders sit on camel saddles, their feet resting forward in the curve of each camel's neck. A bridle runs back from a silver ring through each animal's right nostril. The camels crowd together as the starter raises his starting stick, but before he can drop it, a huge cheer sends the camels lurching forward in one heaving mass. Their long legs kick forward, riders bobbing to and fro atop 60 dancing humps. The race comprises two laps of Timia's valley floor - less than 4 miles...
...drama vehicles in the works for Richard Dreyfuss, Ellen DeGeneres, Jason Alexander and on NBC - and I only wish I were kidding - Food Network chef Emeril Lagasse. (Note to NBC personnel: first person to say "Bam!" within an arm's length of me gets a Scripto up their nostril...