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The Penis De Milo: Cynthia Plaster Claster

Mat Snow, Q, September 1989

Cynthia was a normal 1960s American teenager, with an abnormal interest in rock musicians. Then, one day in art school, she was told "to make a plaster cast of anything that was solid enough to retain its shape". Cynthia, as it happens, had the very thing in mind... Suddenly, the notorious Plaster Casters of Chicago were in business.

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