There were few details — it sounded as though the two had been caught in a crossfire, one of those awful, random happenstances of war.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads SAN DIEGO — Thinking About Thought, an exhibition of books and original drawings by writer and conceptual artist Roberta Allen, came about through a series of happenstances.
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They live in Bird Town, a city populated by bird-people, plant people, and other animal-people, and are trying to figure out their lives in a place where cartoonish happenstances are commonplace.
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In the mid-28500s, cartoonist Bil Keane's popular comic strip "The Family Circus" featured a cute but devious little invisible gremlin named "Not Me." This gremlin took the blame for various happenstances in the family household that the children denied having committed.
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Strange happenstances in recent times, mysterious and ancient prophecies, and magic constantly misused are also themes across the world and through all five books.
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In 2004, Johnston released an album of unpolished home recordings called Happenstances. It is mostly self-recorded, with Zoë playing acoustic guitars and layering harmonies to hone a unique vocal sound. It features the original version of the Faithless song "Crazy English Summer". One notable guest appearance is that of Miles Davis and Carlos Santana band member Benny Rietveld, who performs bass on the song "Something More".
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The journeys of two pairs of siblings – Abir- Drishti and Subho-Antara – lead to a series of tense happenstances. The recent episodes reveal the twists in the plot. It shows the trials and tribulations of unexpected events in the lead pair’s lives in the track where Drishti’s would-be husband Rahul gets kidnapped and Subho gets the blame. Meanwhile, Abir refuses to marry Antara until his sister gets married.
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The film skips through 35 years in the life of Max Youngman (Poulson), following him through his courtship and marriage to Lyla (Weixler), who is also the object of affection for his best friend Sal (Offerman). Never seeming to age, Max and the adult characters closest to him stumble in and out of comically misguided relationships and happenstances that are seamlessly woven together by animated vignettes provided by Bob Sabiston (A Scanner Darkly).
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Wonder Stories in 1934 recommended the novel, saying that "the plot of the story is nothing new, [but] a master of fantasy, such as Burroughs, can . . . keep the story absorbing from the first page to the last"."Book Review", Wonder Stories, June 1934, p.114 Floyd C. Gale of Galaxy Science Fiction in 1963 said that "despite his usual penchant for coincidence and gratuitously fortuitous happenstances (whew!), his power of invention in the realm of pure adventure remains keen throughout the Venusian series".
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He says Ayo Makun isn't "a rounded actor", calls the film an hybrid of Osuofia in London (2003) and The Return of Jenifa (2011), and concludes: "...there is no single, continuous plot but a series of sketches and happenstances cobbled together to make up a movie. The pacing moves breezingly enough to obscure the lack of a substantial story but it does little to hide the deficiency with continuity as the scenes just clash noisily into the other. The jokes are gold—though failing unsurprisingly only when AY attempts stand up. 30 Days in Atlanta is funny, but poorly made".
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