(whispering) Are they alive?

I'm not sure what amazes me more: the statues themselves or the fact that Ron Mueck has never had formal art training.

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mandible
noun
1. The lower jaw of a vertebrate animal.
2. Either the upper or lower part of the beak in birds.
3. Any of various mouth organs of invertebrates used for seizing and biting food, especially either of a pair of such organs in insects and other arthropods.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin mandibula, from Latin mandere, to chew.]
"mandible." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. Answers.com 31 Dec. 2005. http://www.answers.com/topic/mandible

plummet
verb
1. To fall straight down; plunge.
2. To decline suddenly and steeply.
[Middle English plomet, from Old French, ball of lead, diminutive of plom, plomb, sounding lead, from Latin plumbum.]
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