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A xenomorph inches close enough for the crab to raise its claws in defense before backing away from its tiny earthly cousin.

It’s a lesson, this richly satisfying production suggests, that no earthly power can destroy except death — and possibly not even that.

The world’s luckiest man has finally used all his earthly good fortune.

“Perhaps those people will escape earthly justice, the justice of man, but when it comes to the justice of our Father God, no one escapes,” he said.

Just over a century later, Teddy Roosevelt said of the vice presidency, “I certainly do not want to hold a position of titular dignity and of no earthly practical importance for four years.”