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Plasticine

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Plasticine
™ a soft coloured material used, esp by children, for modelling


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Nick Park is best-known for his indomitable duo, Wallace and Gromit, but one of his three Oscars (to date) is for the 1989 short ``Creature Comforts,'' a comic gem in which man- on-the-street interviews were put into the mouths of a wry assortment of plasticine zoo animals.
But no one told us all that plasticine convenience comes at a price.
Move close and universal structure gives way to social particularity: Each of the grid's 396 rectangles is a found ad, and each ad is doctored by the application of a Plasticine prosthesis, most often involving a figure's hair.
 
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