Word: origin
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...twisty art thriller Memento, gets a shot with Batman Begins. He says all he borrowed from the franchise was Batman himself, and even this Batman will be a mystery to fans. "I saw a small gap in pop-culture movie history," Nolan says, "the film where Batman explains his origin, the definitive account of his journey from Bruce Wayne to Batman. It's a unique opportunity to make a film about a character the audience knows and loves while doing a story that has never been told before and to do it your...
This humor is further evident in the slightly tongue-in-cheek quality of the website, which asks visitors from the future to bring some sort of proof of their origin...
Even in these final months of the war, with Hitler already installed in his concrete bunker, Himmler’s directives continued, and the human machinery of degradation and destruction persisted in its mission to obliterate the Jews, regardless of their country of origin. In other words, American Jews were no different from their Continental cousins, in spite of what the Americans themselves felt to be an almost unbreachable divide between them and the Jews they were trying to rescue from the clutches of the Third Reich. In the end, as Kafka seemingly prophesied, they were all captives...
...virtual certainty of death from AIDS, once the syndrome has fully developed, that makes the disease so frightening, along with the uncertainty of nearly everything else about it. Despite the progress in medical research so far, huge questions remain about its origin and fundamental nature. In trying to understand AIDS, says Dr. William Haseltine, a leading investigator at Harvard's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, "we have moved from being explorers in a canoe to explorers with a small sail on the vast sea of what we do not know...
...biennial track meet, which traces its origin to 1894, when Yale first competed against Oxford, is unique as it pits America against Britain, joining the traditional rivals Harvard and Yale to face their English peers from Oxford and Cambridge...