This sculpture is distinguished not by a sense of plastic volume and fullness but rather by its linear character; the figure is conceived from the standpoint of its outline, and the figure itself is graceful, slender, and has supple limbs.
He prefers to trace the art back to classical Greece and believes, as Rabinowitz wrote in The Russian Review in 1991, that "balletic dance alone preserved the character of the Hellenic sense of plastic art".
This person has a mischievous, childlike sense of fun (the plastic frog and pig, the snow scene) and the flashes of bright blue dotted about (the chair, the scissors, some files) suggest he likes to be surprising.
In the UK we are increasingly following the lead of America, where for years public restrooms have been catering to a growing sense of germ phobia: plastic covers that scroll across toilet seats with the wave of a hand, automatic flushes, automatic soap dispensers, automatic taps, and state-of-the-art hand-driers.
After a battle with piracy that has cut its sales in half in just over a decade, the music industry has high hopes for streaming, which is growing faster than digital purchases, as many listeners decide that ownership makes less sense than in the days of plastic and vinyl.
The next section of this report (see article) looks at recycling in the traditional sense, of salvaging used metal, plastic and paper.
In cricket the ECB and its officers have attempted a more businesslike structure, erecting a plastic sense of corporate belonging, with executive layers of leadership, stakeholders, daily power breakfasts, boot camps, campfire hand-holding sessions and all the rest of it.
Some of the action is depicted through film projection onto the pitted surfaces of Nick Benacerraf's squalid set — built from old speakers and sheets of plastic — enhancing the sense of disorientation.
There is even a sense of festivity, with Christmas decorations, plastic Christmas trees and Santa costumes in the shops.
The component is a unit, typically made of plastic, through which the sensing wires that run between the heart and a defibrillator connect into the device.
The thick glass, the huge swathes of turned aluminum chrome, and the near absence of plastic anywhere all imparts the sense of total privacy from the outside world.
