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 ".

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.

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.

It was then revealed that it was a drug created by the Kingpin that would be fake medicine for the elderly to take that would make them feel worse to the point of death, but the plan was foiled by Spider-Man and Aunt May was saved, along with every other elderly person who took the drug.

Besides his wife, he shares his life with his elderly parents and his spinster sister and her boyfriend who runs a funeral business ; the family share their once stately palace with his uncles, who are slowly but surely eating away the remainders of the then rich estate of the Baron.

The elderly Boniface was rescued, but then died of shock shortly thereafter.

On the instigation of a Gomard ( possibly the brother of her supposed father ), Jeanne was then employed as a companion ( dame de compagnie ) to an elderly widow, Madame de la Garde, but was sent away when her youth and beauty began to meddle in the marital affairs of both la Garde's two somewhat middle-aged sons.

He then became the villain of the piece, playing elaborate, cartoonish practical jokes on policemen, soldiers, tradesmen and passers-by, tripping people with butter slides and crushing babies, with the assistance of his elderly accomplice, Pantaloon.

Modern veterinary techniques make gelding of even a somewhat elderly stallion a fairly low-risk procedure, and the horse then has the benefit of being able to be turned out safely with other horses and allowed to live a less restricted and isolated life than was allowed for a stallion.

The U. S fighter community was shocked by the news that elderly subsonic fighters were inflicting losses against the F-105 Thunderchief, the fastest and most sophisticated strike fighter then in the Air Force inventory.

However, shortly after arriving, Carlos Gomes, by then an elderly man in poor health, died on September 16, 1896.

As life expectancy becomes older and programs such as Social Security benefit the elderly, the old are now beginning to live past that of prior generations, which then may lead to generations mixing together.

According to Lozzi, he lived with and then visited the elderly Mannix from 1979 to 1982, and that on at least a half-dozen occasions he called a priest when Mrs. Mannix feared death and wanted to confess her sins.

One of his more elderly opponents ( a notorious non-resigner ) who for 30 moves had been wobbling along with a piece down until " time " had to be called, then proceeded to " demonstrate a draw " by concocting a continuation so optimistic that even clubmates with lifelong experience of his powers stood aghast.

A physician hoping to raise the funds to give his daughter a dowry buys a tontine on the life of an elderly peasant, who he then strives to keep alive.

Bynes introduces herself as some ridiculous but possibly famous character, then explains how a group of entities ( such as cheerleaders, elderly women, the kids from The Brady Bunch, school mascots, and female Hula dancers ) have been attacking people.

Indeed, when Oliver Sacks subsequently visited the island after reading a book on the subject, he noted that a group of elderly islanders talking together dropped briefly into sign language then back into speech.

In some rare cases, the very elderly of the Fairy people would be exchanged in the place of a human baby, and then the old fairy could live in comfort, being coddled by its human parents.

" " Since then, government has assumed responsibility for more and more areas of social life: schooling, regulating wages and working conditions, establishing standards for products of all sorts, and providing financial assistance to the elderly, the ill, and the unemployed.

In Númenor's last years, the powerful but elderly King Ar-Pharazôn, who had become " frightened of old age ", was persuaded by Sauron that Ilúvatar was a lie invented by the Valar, and seduced him to the worship of Melkor, first in secret and then openly.

Aslan then blows Jill into Narnia, where she arrives a few moments after Eustace — just as an elderly and frail King takes ship and sails from the harbor.

Peppe then decides to find legitimate work, much to the surprise of an elderly member of the group.

Neither his failure as an orator nor his defeat in a duel with Charles Thomas Floquet, then an elderly civilian and the minister of the interior, reduced the enthusiasm of his popular following.