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I had taped this off AMC during the 2002 Halloween marathon and finally had a chance to watch it and while it had the look and feel of a Hammer movie it was amazingly, painfully dull.

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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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