Fitzgerald had to suffer much crueller and more ill-informed criticisms than I have.

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" The Mirror's editorial was headed: "Margaret Thatcher broke Britain and replaced it with something crueller and nastier.

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The incident had been the crueller in that it had involved a child, a garden boy who had scarcely entered the years of understanding.

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But if Le Canard is all about scoops and unreported secrets, Charlie is both cruder and crueller - deploying a melange of cartoons and an often vicious polemical wit.

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That primal triangle went fractal, very effectively: the initial model flipped several times, as Pam rejected Jim, then Jim Pam, and it was mimicked in crueller forms (Angela, Dwight, and Andy), sillier forms (Kelly, Ryan, and Darryl), and more grownup forms (Michael, Jan, and Holly), until nearly every character had dealt with some form of unspoken longing or romantic betrayal.

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