accident
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“I thought it was a coincidence at the time, but I don’t think it was,” Walters says in the documentary, adding that her mother’s accident was in her application.
From Los Angeles Times
The exhibition also includes murals featuring familiar childhood imagery: One is an illustration of an enormous traffic accident by children’s book author Richard Scarry.
From Los Angeles Times
The land has passed through every generation since, including those who fought in the Civil War and survived a buzz-saw accident.
It appeared to be a tragic, but not uncommon, accident.
From BBC
One might argue that Fennell’s stunning images and the familiar emotions they convey are a happy accident, the result of millions of dollars and a director given carte blanche to play as she sees fit.
From Salon
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