Word: offshoot
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Bear in mind that what makes the film a genuine offshoot of Nashville is its structure, not its theme: Rudolph's script is indeed relating Carroll's story but it is not focusing on him. No real overriding social commentary can be gleaned from Welcome to L.A. that compares with the heavy-handed moralism of Altman's Nashville vision. Instead, the state of the American psyche is Rudolph's primary preoccupation. He dubbed the genre of Welcome to L.A. "emotional science-fiction--it shows what will happen if we don't watch out." And his own words capture the essence...
...good life. This change, which Benjamin DeMott sums up as scrapping " 'in sickness and in health' in favor of 'I do my thing and you do your thing,' " is not so much the result of sexual permissiveness and easier divorce laws as, like them, an offshoot of what Weiss describes as the "intensity of our impatience with barriers to self-realization." Weiss adds...
...added that the Liberal Club is a recent liberal offshoot of the conservative Liberal Democratic Party. But he said it does not differ radically from its parent party, which facilitates cooperation...
...with a circulation of 5000. It was established in 1969 in reaction to the appearance of a leftist student newspaper that has since folded. The paper's philosophic bent, after a wishy-washy period when the staff members ranged from Republicans to utopian socialists, has focused on objectivism. This offshoot of libertarianism calls for a society where a person's rights to do whatever he pleases are limited only when he exerts or threatens force against another person...
According to Champion, Gibson's work in admissions and on student employment and loans were major reasons behind the financial vice president's selection of Gibson to head the Office of Fiscal Services, an offshoot of Champion's 1973 reorganization of services once grouped in the comptroller's office. Gibson was not, Champion adds, a "theoretical systems guy," but he instead had "actually lived in an university environment and understood well" the problem of student financial...