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...adversity - from the grumbling colostomy bag of Uncle (1996), the first in a trilogy of shorts acquired by broadcaster sbs, to the cerebral palsy of Cousin (1998) and asthmatic fits of Brother (1999). But more often than not, they don't. "When I was older, my auntie drank rat poison and died," says the narrator of Uncle, which sets the tone in the Elliot oeuvre for outlandish deaths. As for the carnage in Krumpet, Harvie's parents are found frozen naked on their bike, Dr. Angela Greystane dies horribly from emphysema, the cancer-ward nurse Harvie marries collapses from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pathos in Plasticine | 2/23/2004 | See Source »

...Saturday’s match-up with Cornell, the Crimson will be forced to pick its poison, as the Big Red feature a couple of more-than-competent scorers in guard Ka’ron Barnes and swingman Cody Toppert. The two sharpshooters comprise Cornell’s potent 1-2 punch and currently rank first and second in Ivy scoring, respectively...

Author: By Ryan M. Donovan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hoopsters Take Second Lap of Ivies | 2/20/2004 | See Source »

...with two unsolved ricin-in-the-mail incidents that occurred last fall. They didn't create much of a panic, and despite the evacuation of three Senate office buildings last week, neither did the ricin found under a mail-opening machine on Capitol Hill. Ricin is a potent enough poison , and terrorist groups from al-Qaeda to the Iraq-based Ansar al-Islam have reportedly produced it for use as a biological weapon. So, evidently, did Saddam Hussein before the first Gulf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Homegrown Terror | 2/16/2004 | See Source »

...there's no shortage of raw material. But unlike anthrax, ricin is tough to aerosolize and inhale; the easiest way to deliver a fatal dose is injection or ingestion, and you need a lot for the latter. Ricin is powerful, but it's a retail, not a wholesale, poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Homegrown Terror | 2/16/2004 | See Source »

...toward the end, ?and I don?t care. I?m not sorry I met you. I?m not sorry I killed for you. I?m not sorry that I love you.? In the book and the movie, the woman realizes she loves Louis as he is dying from her poison. In the book, he dies; in the film the couple trudges off in the snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Fear Noir | 12/16/2003 | See Source »

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