Word: tussaud
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...Queen has also subtly refurbished the most public aspect of her work - her interaction with ordinary people. She has never been naturally extroverted, perhaps a reaction to growing up so famous that as a child she had a territory named after her in Antarctica and was immortalized in Madame Tussaud's astride a pony. Her early friend and bridesmaid Pamela Hicks noted the unrelenting press of "intimate strangers" always peering in alongside motorcades. But over the years the Queen has learned to make encounters more enjoyable - and memorable. When she grants honors, she studies biographies of each recipient and writes...
...brilliance of the work rests not just upon the quality of the print's resolution, however, but also upon this conceptual turn: the photo is not really of the Emperor, but of his wax figure at Madame Tussaud's museum in London. Wax statues look almost laughably fake in person, but Sugimoto exploits the power (or perhaps the weakness) of the camera's single eye to flatten perspective and encourage illusion, thereby creating an image that looks more real, more human than the wax object he is photographing. In the next room are similar shots of King Henry VIII...
...conversation with the President about the state of the economy, but there wasn't much actual conversing going on, just a series of testimonials from selected employees about the glories of the Bush tax cuts. Compared with the bracing, scruffy spontaneity of the primary, this seemed a Madame Tussaud's waxworks version of democracy. But then, George W. Bush has spent the past three years packed in political bubble-wrap, sequestered from the realities of the public square. He doesn't read the papers, or so he says. The televisions in the West Wing are tuned to the flag-brandishing...
...British media company Pearson, Scardino is tackling the company's debt by ridding it of noncore businesses and focusing on education and consumer publishing. Last month, Pearson sold its stake in broadcaster RTL, after having previously dispensed with interests in Royal Doulton china and Madame Tussaud's waxworks, among others...
...Bush. Do you really want to see him strutting his emaciated self across the stage? Like Madonna, he's another example of mutton-dressed-up-as-lamb. The Stones and the Who and Aerosmith - even U2, for that matter - don't so much reinvent themselves as become Madame Tussaud figures of themselves. And like those wax figures, the Stones look so eerily alive. Except for Bill Wyman...