Word: unbeknownst
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Shapiro-Deisenhouse is literally a zombie. Unbeknownst to her Allston Burr Senior Tutor, Shapiro-Deisenhouse leads a secret double life and occasionally does the “Zombie Mash...
...abduction turned out to be standard procedure for anyone visiting Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, spiritual leader of the Lebanese Shi'ite militia Hizballah, who, unbeknownst to Gaghan, had an interest in movies and had decided to grant the screenwriter an audience--even though Gaghan hadn't requested one. Naturally, the near kidnapping found its way into Gaghan's new film Syriana, which dramatizes the politics of oil, terrorism and the Persian Gulf in much the same way Traffic spun entertainment out of addiction, drug policy and the U.S.-Mexico border. If anything, Syriana, which opens Nov. 23, is more ambitious...
...Unbeknownst to the History Department, this lone course is probably the single most influential reason why undergraduates choose to concentrate in the “neighboring” fields of History and Literature or Social Studies instead of in History. Tait chose the History and Literature concentration because of her discouragement with the superficiality of History...
...Unbeknownst to me, it was spawned by the death of my father. It's about a literature professor teaching King Lear from a strong feminist perspective who accuses a male student of hers, an athlete, of plagiarism. It's a case of reverse discrimination, but it's larger than that. Her youngest daughter is leaving home for college. Her father has a form of dementia, and she's sort of Cordelia to her father's Lear. She's looking at political beliefs she formed 30 years ago that she thought would be the dominant beliefs in her life...
...years past, golfers, sailors, and other sportsmen found it expedient to sport collared shirts. Constantly exposed to rain and sun, the owners of these collars sometimes “popped” them for protection. Unbeknownst to many today, the popped collar originated with Rene Lacoste, who, in 1929, wore his newly-invented short-sleeve polo shirt with the collar popped to protect against the sun while playing tennis. With the rise of the unfriendly-to-popping, indoor leisure style of Ralph Lauren in the 1960s, collar poppers had their first natural enemies...