Anything that reduces the need for more such head-banging in the future will take on a strange allure.

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Felipe Massa in the other Ferrari set the race's fastest lap and he, too, might have leapfrogged Barrichello - had he not been stuck behind the newly refuelled and therefore slower Button when he needed to be banging in the fast low-fuel laps.

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The striker was banging the goals in, helping Preston to the First Division play-off final against Bolton at the Millennium Stadium.

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Another prisoner cut his head by banging his head on a cell door in what the military officials said was a self-inflicted wound.

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Banging away at a typewriter, he ignores the ringing phone next to him, in the age-old tradition of geniuses at work.

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It's a bit of a slow starter, but by the time the Chemical Brothers' track fully kicks in, and the Tron-like visuals get going, we're practically banging down the door at Modell's for some hi-tech spandex.

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Sonically, this treatment of America comes across via a grouping of pedal steel guitars (instead of the usual string section), banging titanium and steel sculptures, and organizing "a who's who of drummers" in a 12-member drum circle, including Jason Bonham, Sheila E. and Pharrell Williams.

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