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Fontaine is too beautiful, too dignified & too quiet to be a ditzy blonde, no matter how aristocratic, while young footman Albert (Watson) is painfully awful.

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China, over the same time period, went in exactly the opposite direction, very painfully holding this huge civilization, civilization-state, together.

Early in the morning, when the station toilets were opened, she got painfully to her feet, and made her way over to them.

And it very slowly, over a few minutes, sort of painfully goes up, and then it gains momentum and it looks like it's almost about to fall.

Why? Well because, if you miss your flight by three minutes, it is painfully easy to imagine that you could have made different decisions that would have led to a better outcome.

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