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jumping-off point


  • n  a beginning from which an enterprise is launched
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  • TV Tonight: Under the Dome
    At one point on Lost, Desmond attempts to escape the Island by sailboat, only to find himself driven, despite the readings of his compass, right back to the place where he began. “This is all there is left,” he tells Jack. “This ocean and this place here. We are stuck in a bloody snowglobe.” That statement could be the jumping-off point for CBS’s Stephen King–based summer experiment, Under the ...
    June 24, 2013 - Tuned In

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