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(15) Prince Charles’s 1997 diaries on the handover of Hong Kong to the Chinese (title: “The Handover of Hong Kong or The Great Chinese Takeaway”) revealed that Prince Charles viewed officials as “appalling old waxworks” and labelled one Chinese handover ceremony an “awful Soviet-style” performance.

(14) They moved to Paris and she created figures for a waxwork exhibition, narrowly escaped the guillotine in the French Revolution, and ended up making death masks of guillotine victims.

(13) According to Edwards, every unwanted waxwork is archived in a warehouse in Acton, west London – a fabulously creepy place that is off limits to the media.

(12) Tussauds has always been 3D and its waxworks are now thoroughly, irreverently interactive.

(11) I saw someone,” he said, “and it didn’t dawn on me for a few seconds that that person was a waxwork.

(10) He added: "After my speech the president detached himself from the group of appalling old waxworks who accompanied him and took his place at the lectern.

(9) In a memo about the handover ceremony, Prince Charles described the Communist party’s elderly leaders as a “group of appalling old waxworks” and mocked the “awful Soviet-style display” of goose-stepping Chinese soldiers at the event.(8) Tussaud inherited Curtius's models and her travelling exhibition of waxworks became the touring newspaper of the day, providing vivid impressions of contemporary events, particularly the revolution, in a time before photographs.(7) At Madame Tussauds in London, a waxwork of George Bernard Shaw had just been unveiled.

less popular than pig flu " and Richard Littlejohn wrote, " If Gordon was a dog, he'd be put down. (6) Matthew Parris called him a " living waxwork " Suzanne Moore a " zombie gurning.(5) Recreating the exact facial features of public figures of the day can be a task fraught with problems for the waxwork artists of Madame Tussauds.(4) Sterling was so starstruck when he first saw Steven Gerrard at Liverpool he remembers it being like looking at a waxwork model.(3) It concerned the handover of Hong Kong, and in it he described the Chinese Communist leadership as "appalling old waxworks" and railed against Tony Blair and his coterie of advisers.(2) "Audrey Hepburn was so beautiful in real life that her waxwork didn't do her justice, whereas Charles and Camilla were very good," reckons Moira Carrasco from Surrey, who is visiting with her daughter and granddaughter.(1) The ubiquity of Madame Tussauds, found everywhere from Bangkok to Berlin, may reflect the globalisation of Hollywood but each city gets the waxworks it deserves.It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the seeds. (n.) An American climbing shrub (Celastrus scandens).(n.) Work made of wax especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings.