Word: offshoot
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...offshoot of the remake is the prequel, which takes a famous character and asks, How'd he get that way? George Lucas has traced his signature hero and villain back to their boyhoods--Indy with the Young Indiana Jones TV series, Darth Vader with three Star Wars episodes. But the megamovie template for a coming-of-age fantasy saga is the 2002 Spider-Man, which earned $800 million worldwide and spawned its own robust franchise. If the strategy works, it feeds Hollywood's itch to be endlessly self-derivative. First comes the remake--or, in mogul-speak, the reimagining--then...
...connection with its cultural roots. "I think the allure of belly dance is related to its sensuality and a fascination with the beauty and the music," says Nina Costanza, who teaches and performs under the name Amar in New York City. "The fitness thing," she says, is just "an offshoot." Even if that's what's packing them...
Eleven years ago, an obstetrician in Salt Lake City, Utah, delivered a brand-spanking-new franchise into the world. Noting that pregnant women seemed to have an insatiable appetite for ultrasound images of their babies, Dr. Leon Hansen set up a retail offshoot of his practice that offered high-tech images in a low-rent setting--a mall. Women soon flocked there to buy sonogram videos and pictures made strictly for keepsake purposes. Hansen has since sold his stake in Fetal Fotos, but the business is booming with a dozen outlets across the country and a host of imitators with...
...move to California was a logical step for the team, Zuckerberg says. He hoped to spend the summer working on Wirehog, the file-sharing offshoot to TheFacebook. McCollum, who helped Zuckerberg create Wirehog, had an internship with Electronic Arts in Redwood City, California. Wirehog’s third founder, Adam D’Angelo, a friend of Zuckerberg’s from high school who now attends CalTech, didn’t want to travel too far from school, but Zuckerberg figured he could bring him up to Palo Alto...
Single-sex housing was the last barrier left. Harvard had always stood in the vanguard of higher education with its Radcliffe offshoot. But after peer institutions Yale and Princeton officially announced plans to go co-ed in 1968, Harvard students were behind...