CHARLESTON, S.C. – A cruise liner hit by an outbreak of intestinal illness for a third straight trip from South Carolina returned a day early Thursday as operator Celebrity Cruises brought in extra crew to scrub the ship down for three days.

The Celebrity Mercury arrived about 2 a.m. and passengers began disembarking as the sun rose over Charleston.

The cruise company reported 406 of the more than 1,800 passengers got sick after the ship’s March 8 departure. Thirteen of 857 crew members also got sick.

Hundreds of passengers got sick with the norovirus on two previous Mercury cruises this year from Charleston. The norovirus can spread quickly in closed quarters with symptoms including nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and stomach cramps.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the cause of the outbreak on the latest cruise has not yet been determined, but passengers reported symptoms including diarrhea and vomiting.

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NEW YORK – Laurence Lallier slipped carefully between two naked women facing each other in a narrow doorway at the Museum of Modern Art.

“I didn’t want to step on their feet,” said Lallier, a student from Montreal. “We feel shy and they don’t, and they’re the ones that are naked.”

When the artist Marina Abramovic and her then-companion Ulay first performed the piece, called “Imponderabilia,” in Bologna, Italy in 1977, the police showed up. New York’s finest are unlikely to interfere with the version that opened at MoMA on Sunday, though some museum-goers may choose not to do the sideways limbo between bare bodies.

Elsewhere in the exhibit two clothed people touch fingertips, two others sit back to back with their hair entwined and a naked woman reclines with a skeleton (not a real one) lying on top of her. The performers, re-enacting pieces originated by Abramovic alone or with Ulay, are statue-still.

“It’s neat seeing someone naked but not in a sexual way,” said Steven Crossot of Philadelphia, watching the skeleton rise and fall with the woman’s breathing. “It doesn’t even feel voyeuristic. It feels like you’re looking at a Renaissance piece, but live.”

The Yugoslavian-born Abramovic, 63, is a performance art grande dame who has pushed the limits of physical endurance since the late 1960s.

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