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...busing them to their new countryside digs. Now, they have traded their possibly virus-ridden apartments for temporary housing that might also be as conducive to spreading the killer virus. Sammy Mak, a 31-year-old clerk, spent her first morning in the holiday village disinfecting her cabin's toilet with bleach. She was told that relatives of afflicted residents would be separated from the rest of the quarantined citizens, but a neighbor whose mother contracted SARS has been assigned a cabin nearby. "It feels like being in prison," Mak says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doing Battle with the Bug | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

Kasdan hasn't held back on it in Dreamcatcher, with snakelike aliens created by his friend George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic that have oval, teeth-packed mouths--clearly intended to be a Freudian nightmare--and a completely disgusting scene involving a toilet. "People say the scariest part of a movie is when you don't see something. Bulls___!" Kasdan says, chewing on a Twizzler while reviewing the sound of a door being opened by an alien, for which he requests additional "wet squeegee" noises. "I want to see something when I go to the movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Horror Sounds | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

...knew your life depended on your sitting on a toilet-seat cover and keeping the awful thing inside from bursting out, would you get up to reach for a toothpick? The answer is yes if a) you're in a horror movie; b) it's time for the first big blast-o-gore; and (c) you are played by Jason Lee, whose attempts at acting constitute their own special horror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Hazards of Tooth Picking | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

...hotels in town, where the lobby showcased live white tigers pacing in glass cages. Training camp, though, was an hour-and-a-half away from the glitz of Guangzhou and it introduced him to a different China. The hotel mattress felt like it was stuffed with goal posts, the toilet overflowed and the only wildlife in the hotel was tiny, brown and had six legs. "It's supposed to be a communist country, where everybody's equal-like" observes Gazza. "But I reckon things aren't so equal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Washed Up? | 3/3/2003 | See Source »

...environs, at risk of being peeled off or fly-posted over. Young guns Nick Relph and Oliver Payne first made a splash with video works showing the city from the perspective of skateboarders or graffiti artists. In their latest adventure they visit the disappearing underworld of the gents' public toilet, and find the gap between London's image and its reality. Not all the work is quite so intimate or quotidian, but neither is there a deliberate attempt to become the next sensation by piling on the shock value. Dexter Dalwood's Ceaucescu's Execution (earlier works include imagined views...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art with a British Flavor | 3/2/2003 | See Source »

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