Some of the strokes were as good as ever, one exemplary punch off the back foot against Tremlett rocketing through mid-off to the boundary.

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This asymmetry is not crucial at the present level of strategic-missile deployment, since there are enough weapons to punch through these defenses.

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But they are often iconic, frequently arresting, fundamentally timeless, and occasionally shot through with genius (think of the Face Punch film-within-a-film in Twilight).

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The Sunday flight -- dubbed CRS-1 -- will have the Dragon capsule piggybacking on a Falcon 9 rocket to punch through the atmosphere while carrying more than a thousand pounds of cargo.

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