“Why, he was asked, did he leave a tiny opening between the lips, as though she was about to say something? ’I don’t know,’ Mr. Bender said with a shrug. ‘It just works.’”
From a David Stout profile of Frank Bender, a forensic sculptor famed in police circles for his uncanny ability to recreate both the appearance and the personality of unidentified, decomposed persons’ faces, thereby aiding their ability to be identified, in the June 22, 2011 issue of The New York Tmes.