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...Unlike a film though, we get to read Mark and Ingrid's thoughts. This crucial insight clues us into each character's secret motivations. Ingrid, for example, recalls cheating on Mark with his roommate, unbeknownst to him. So she uses her guilt to rationalize the clearly bad move of meeting him. Even Mark's manipulative scheme gradually begins to seem more like a pitifully misguided attempt at reconnecting with someone he cared about. The whole thing blows up, of course, at the climactic get-together where Mark gets progressively more drunk, his horny friend gets less cautious and Ingrid allows...
...Kinberg's graduate thesis at Columbia University Film School, had been kicking around for months. Liman had already passed on it once. It's the story of a seemingly conventional suburban couple facing two very big problems. One, their marriage is arid and joyless. And two, they both, each unbeknownst to the other, are topflight assassins at rival agencies. When professional circumstances pit the Smiths against each other, a hilarious fire fight between two trained killers ensues ("I missed you, honey" becomes a double entendre), which somehow, mysteriously, becomes a portrait of a marriage rediscovering its lost flame...
...Unbeknownst to the Crimson, as it was celebrating its hard-earned victory over Penn, Dartmouth was keeping pace, holding serve at home against Princeton to improve to an Ivy League best...
...have seemingly reached a point where the debate is no longer about cold hard facts—but largely about the sense of impotence and disconnect described above. The “critiques” of Senior Gift Plus are sadly enough permeated with a sentiment that, often unbeknownst to those making said critiques, belies a deeper sense of hopelessness and uncritical acquiescence to the status quo. They ask: There are always going to be injustices in the world where our money may be invested, where will the protesting of Senior Gifts stop? This alone is not going to topple...
...Unbeknownst to most of its 15,000 users, a number of academics have begun to use TheFacebook as a qualitative research tool, eschewing its traditional uses for more sophisticated ones...