The break-in starts as farce and ends in tragic pathos, as Alex's attack kills the elderly woman.

The elderly woman reflects poignantly on her own checkered past, and wonders what happened to her refined " Liaisons ".

The elderly woman then asks Fredrika a surprising question: " What is it all for?

It disclosed a " distinct pattern " of abuses by the contras, including: " attacks on purely civilian targets resulting in the killing of unarmed men, woman, children and the elderly ; – premeditated acts of brutality including rapes, beatings, mutilations and torture ; – and individual and mass kidnappings of civilians for the purpose of forced recruitment into the Contra forces and the creation of a hostage refugee population in Honduras ; – assaults on economic and social targets such as farms, cooperatives and on vehicles carrying volunteer coffee harvesters ; – intimidation of civilians who participate or cooperate in government or community programs such as distribution of subsidized food products, education and local self-defense militias ; – and kidnapping, intimidation, and even murder of religious leaders who support the government, including priests and clergy-trained lay pastors.

Jacob M. Appel's widely anthologized short story, A Comparative Seismology, features a con artist who convinces an elderly woman that an apocalyptic earthquake is imminent.

( See Kuleshov Experiment ) He took an old film clip of a head shot of a noted Russian actor and intercut the shot with a shot of a bowl of soup, then with a child playing with a teddy bear, then with a shot an elderly woman in a casket.

Loki is a shape shifter and in separate incidents he appears in the form of a salmon, mare, seal, a fly, and possibly an elderly woman.

She, and usually another elderly woman in the village help during and after the delivery.

An elderly Tibet an woman with a prayer wheel

The yellow Oldsmobile also appeared in Drag Me to Hell, driven by the elderly gypsy woman.

Alvin ( Richard Farnsworth ) is an elderly World War II veteran who lives with his daughter Rose ( Sissy Spacek ), a kind woman with a mental disability.

Other stories include ludicrous " kiss and tell " and similar stories by people who are portrayed as mentally disturbed, often with highly bizarre elements ; examples include allegations by a man who claimed that, on holiday touring in his caravan, he found a campsite run by Elvis Presley who, when plied with drink, admitted to the Kennedy assassination ; another from a retired toilet attendant who described the nature of faeces from various little-known celebrities and an elderly woman who blames anti-social behaviour in her area on bored Newsnight presenters, as well as a mental home patient who claimed to have had sex with a number of children's TV puppets.

File: Bundesarchiv Bild 183-09249-0013, Berlin, alte Frau sammelt Abfälle. jpg | An elderly woman gathers vegetable waste tossed from a vegetable seller's wagon for her lunch, 1923.

The writer described the fate of an elderly woman who was supposedly the last white person living in her street.

* 9 February: An elderly woman shot and killed while driving in the northern West Bank.

The 1997 film Dante's Peak, which was loosely based on the eruption of Mount St. Helens, features a character called Ruth, an elderly woman who lives in a cabin on the mountain and is reluctant to leave, also claiming " the mountain isn't going to hurt me.

They were found alive two weeks after the killings by an elderly woman shown in the photo.

The Chinese legend of Hua Mulan centers on a young woman who disguises herself as a man to take the place of her elderly father in the army.

:" For the Ewoks, I was inspired by a recording on a BBC documentary of an elderly woman speaking Tibetan.

An elderly woman, not far away, wiped her eyes, and the man beside her looked white and stern.

As the story begins, Dolores Claiborne is in a police interrogation and wants to make clear to the police that she did not kill her wealthy employer, an elderly woman named Vera Donovan whom she has looked after for years.

was performed by Pat Welsh, an elderly woman who lived in Marin County, California.

When they came to the mouth of the river, they came upon the charred remains of the village of the Qualicum people and the mutilated bodies of its inhabitants, with only one survivor, an elderly woman, hiding terrified inside a tree stump.

Mother Goose is generally depicted in literature and book illustration as an elderly country woman in a tall hat and shawl, a costume identical to the peasant costume worn in Wales in the early 20th century, but is sometimes depicted as a goose ( usually wearing a bonnet ).

They include an old Cherokee named Lone Watie, a young Navajo woman, and an elderly woman from Kansas and her granddaughter Wales rescued from Comancheros.

The work relates the opinions and impressions of a gerontic, or elderly man, through a dramatic monologue which describes Europe after World War I through the eyes of a man who has lived the majority of his life in the 19th Century.

She describes a South-to-North " heart transplant " as immigrant care workers from such countries as the Philippines and Sri Lanka leave their young, their elderly and their communities in the poor South to take up paid jobs caring for the young and elderly in families and communities of the affluent North.

An elderly night watchman describes the events he saw that evening.

The setting and plot of The Master Builder can be taken as one of unrelenting, " frock-coated realism ": the destructive outcome of a middle-aged, professional man's infatuation with a younger, teasing woman or, as critic Desmond MacCarthy prosaically describes this concept of the work: the tragedy of an " elderly architect who falls off his scaffold while trying to show off before a young lady ".

There is another extensive Malcolm Hulke prologue as an elderly Time Lord describes the

Elder law describes those aspects of law that have a particular application to the elderly, such as the law of Social Security, pensions, wills and trusts, and guardianships.

Designers and manufacturers have produced models for purchasers who run the gamut from a nautical version of the elderly Pasadena lady who never drove more than five miles an hour on her once-a-month ride around the block, to the sportiest boatman who insists on all the dash, color, flair and speed possible to encompass in a single boat.

Bowman contacts his former girl friend, Betty Fernandez, appearing on her television screen by manipulating the tube, and in a more physical way to his elderly mother, who lies dying.

Basia ( a female name, diminutive of Barbara ) and her father are fictional characters supposed to evoke a sentimental image of women and elderly men waiting for Polish soldiers to return home and liberate their fatherland.

Sarah Jane Smith meets Bea Nelson-Stanley, an elderly lady suffering from Alzheimer's disease who recalls her husband describing the Sontarans as looking like potatoes and that they were " quite the silliest creatures in the galaxy ".

* Queen Amalasuntha receives a delegation sent by a council of Gothic nobles urging that she have her son Athalaric, now 13, taught an education in the Roman tradition not by elderly schoolmasters, but by men who will teach him to " ride, fence, and to be toughened, not to be turned into a bookworm ".

Near the end of her life, she lived in a home for elderly African Americans that she had helped found years earlier.

She worked various jobs to support her elderly parents, and took in boarders to help pay the bills.

Finding delight in humiliating old nobility, she arranged the marriage of old Prince Galitzine, who had incurred her displeasure by marrying an Italian Catholic, with one of her maids ( after the death of his first wife ), an elderly Kalmyk called Avdotaya Ivanovna.

As the novel draws to a close, it becomes apparent that the son senses that Hamiton Felix's second child, a daughter, is the reincarnation of a wise elderly government official who foresaw her own death and arranged to die shortly before Felix's daughter was born.

In her first appearance on this series, Aida Pierce portrayed her elderly alter ego, Virginola, who drinks a bottle of youth serum, and then performs a striptease, taking off her sweater, skirt, scarf, and even her wig, revealing a black sheer bodysuit and pants ... and Pierce herself.

She has devised tricks to delay her suitors, one of which is to pretend to be weaving a burial shroud for Odysseus's elderly father Laertes and claiming that she will choose a suitor when she has finished.

Raskolnikov, the anti-hero of Dostoevsky ’ s novel Crime and Punishment, puts this philosophy into action when he kills an elderly pawnbroker and her sister, later rationalizing this act to himself with the words, "... it wasn ’ t a human being I killed, it was a principle!

An episode of Enterprise titled " E² " featured an elderly T ' Pol in an alternate timeline who had embraced emotion and allowed her half-Human son, Lorian, to do likewise.

When Fa Mulan hears that her elderly father Fa Zhou, the only man in their family, is forced to join the army, she decides to stand in his place, disguising herself as a young man named " Ping ".

When Fa Mulan hears that her elderly father Fa Zhou, the only man in their family, is forced to join the army, she decides to stand in his place, disguising herself as a young man named " Ping ".