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...actor's requisite topless scene. For if Matthew McConaughey is the alpha male, Ferrell is the omega. His chest is large, white and flabby, and it's pocked with what look like dozens of tiny, imperfectly attached hair-implant tufts. It might be a helicopter's eye view of merino sheep stranded on a tundra. And that's what makes this preening so funny: his character's cluelessness to (and Ferrell's awareness of) the limits of his erotic appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Land of the Lost: Delusions of Manhood | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

...made to be washed at home have developed cult followings. Velcro, buttons and snaps have replaced pins, and the diapers are fitted with elastic around the openings to hold tight around flailing legs. In place of old-fashioned rubber panties, the new cloths use water-resistant covers made of merino wool, nylon or polyurethane laminate. "They don't leak or sag or get stinky," says Jenn Labit, founder of Cotton Babies, a popular retailer. And though cloth diapers cost from $6 to $18 each, parents can take care of their baby's needs straight through toilet training for a total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diapers Go Green | 1/10/2008 | See Source »

...obliges one to contemplate, with a kind of cringing pleasure, his torso. The chest is large, white and flabby, suggesting a beached sea otter, and it's pocked with what looks like dozens of tiny, imperfectly attached hair-implant tufts. It might be a helicopter's eye view of merino sheep stranded on a tundra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Ferrell's Glory | 3/30/2007 | See Source »

MEANWHILE IN CROMWELL... Bad Hair Day TV viewers around the world watched as Shrek the merino sheep, who had been on the run for six years, was shorn live on camera. When finally captured on New Zealand's South Island, Shrek was found to have sprouted a fleece weighing 27.5 kilos - enough to make 20 men's suits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 5/3/2004 | See Source »

...It’s a vibrant site where screenings, conferences and discussions about the relationship between arts and politics, economy [and] education...take place,” Vega-Merino said in an e-mail...

Author: By Yingzhen Zhang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Film Students Plan Voyage to Havana | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

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