More recently, Saxon may be best known as a supporting player in horror films, most notably Bob Clark's Black Christmas ( 1974 ) as the relatively smart leader of a bunch of dumb cops ; in Dario Argento's Tenebrae ( 1982 ) as the writer hero's shifty agent ; in Mitchell ( 1975 ) as the murderous union lawyer and prostitute provider Walter Deaney ; in Battle Beyond the Stars ( 1980 ) as Sador ; in Cannibal Apocalypse ( 1980 ) where he played a Vietnam veteran tormented because his worthless pal bit him and years later, he is starting to get the urge to do the same ; in Prisoners of the Lost Universe as a alternate-universe warlord, and in Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street ( 1984 ) as the heroine's ( Nancy Thompson's ) father.

Pigott, who played the role of the heroine's millionaire father, died suddenly in his dressing room, during the run, having not missed a single performance of the first 565.

Die goldene Stadt has the heroine's running away to the city result in her pregnancy and abandonment ; she drowns herself, and her last words beg her father to forgive her for not loving the countryside as he did.

* In the novel Kitty Foyle by Christopher Morley, the heroine's father refers to his bottle of Vat 69 as " the Pope's telephone number.

* The Tenant of Wildfell Hall ( 1848 ) by Anne Brontë is written in the form of letter from the narrator to his friend with the main heroine's diary inside it.

Shakespeare's most striking departure from Cinthio is the manner of his heroine's death.

* In Evermore, the teenage heroine's best friend is ' what you'd call an anonymous-group addict ... she's attended twelve-step meetings for alcoholics, narcotics, codependents, debtors, gamblers, cyber addicts, nicotine junkies, social phobics, pack rats, and vulgarity lovers '.

This motif occurs from Norse mythology, where Svipdagr rouses his mother Gróa from the grave so as to learn from her how to accomplish a task his stepmother set, to fairy tales such as the Brothers Grimm version of Cinderella, where Aschenputtel receives her clothing from a tree growing on her mother's grave, the Russian Vasilissa the Beautiful, where Vasilissa is aided by a doll her mother gave, and her mother's blessing, and the Malay Bawang Putih Bawang Merah, where the heroine's mother comes back as fish to protect her.

* In the book Merlins Keep, a novel by Madeleine Brent ( aka Peter O ' Donnell ), published 1977, Mustang is the setting for the heroine's youth and later adventures.

" Women's fiction ( including chick lit ) is not directly a subcategory of the romance novel genre, because in women's fiction the heroine's relationship with her family or friends may be equally as important as her relationship with the hero.

The heroine's mad scene in Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor is rhapsodic in form.

A common cross-cultural fairy-tale framework in which the heroine's husband is kidnapped by a bewitching rival, initiating a long, arduous quest to reclaim him ( see False hero ).

* Kecak is heard in I Never Promised You a Rose Garden during fantasy sequences taking place in the heroine's paracosm.

The title is taken from the poem Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope, the story of a tragic love affair, where forgetfulness became the heroine's only comfort:

A heroine's lament is a conventional fixture of baroque opera seria, accompanied usually by strings alone, in descending tetrachords.

Although it sometimes includes romantic elements, chick lit is generally not considered a direct subcategory of the romance novel genre, because the heroine's relationship with her family or friends is often just as important as her romantic relationships.

In Finette Cendron, the fairy godmother is the heroine's, but after helping her in the early portion of the tale, she is offended when Finette Cendron does not take her advice, and Finette must work through the second part with little assistance from her.

In Henriette-Julie de Murat's Bearskin, the heroine has a fairy godmother, but she is offended that the heroine's marriage was arranged without consulting her, and refuses to assist.

Thomas Hardy's mother lived in Melbury Osmond as a child, and the village appears in his novel The Woodlanders as " Little Hintock " ( the heroine's name is " Grace Melbury ".

As Thuvia suffers the common Burroughsian heroine's fate of being kidnapped and in need of rescue, Carthoris ' goal is abetted by circumstances.

Alisa's family is modelled after that of the author: he actually had a daughter named Alisa, and heroine's parents are named after Bulychov himself and his wife.

In fact, the poem is close to becoming a romance, recounting many years of Sir Launfal's life – ten before King Arthur's marriage, then seven with his Otherworldly lady and a further year before his trial – in contrast to Marie's Lanval which, like most of her other lais, concern a single episode in a hero's or heroine's life.

* In Stephen King's book Lisey's Story, the heroine's husband's fans use that phrase in that famous writer's meetings ( his name is Scott Landon ).

The series is recognized for its magical girl stylings, including a mystical artifact, the Lovely Eyepatch, that serves as the source of the heroine's power.

* In the book On the Edge, by Ilona Andrews, the heroine's brother is a werecat.

Austen turns the conventions of eighteenth-century novels on their head, by making her heroine a plain and undistinguished girl from a middle-class family, allowing the heroine to fall in love with the hero before he has a serious thought of her, and exposing the heroine's romantic fears and curiosities as groundless.

* The heroine's name, Victoria Line, and her mother, Jubilee Line, are both lines on the London Underground.

: They Came to Baghdad was inspired by Christie's own trips to Baghdad with Mallowan, and involves an archaeologist as the heroine's love interest.

Many scholars agree that in the revision process, the heroine's original character was changed to a less assertive and more feminine character.

* Diana Wynne Jones's meta-fantasy novel Fire and Hemlock makes and early reference to Hero and Leander, both to foreshadow the plot and as a namesake for the heroine's alter-ego.

" However, although Hardy clearly means to criticise Victorian notions of female purity, the double standard also makes the heroine's tragedy possible, and thus serves as a mechanism of Tess's broader fate.

Other People: A Mystery Story ( 1981 ), about a young woman coming out of a coma, was a transitional novel in that it was the first of Amis's to show authorial intervention in the narrative voice, and highly artificed language in the heroine's descriptions of everyday objects, which was said to be influenced by his contemporary Craig Raine's " Martian " school of poetry.

In the early 1980s, Betty Comden appeared as an actress in Wendy Wasserstein's non-musical play Isn't It Romantic, portraying the heroine's mother.

And they let the evident inspiration for their heroine's emotional release be little more than the spell cast by the city upon her fitful and lonely state of mind.

Unlike Perrault's version, the heroine herself suggested an animal be substituted in the dish, and the fragment ends with the heroine's worry that she can not keep her children from crying, and so from coming to the attention of the mother-in-law.

By making the heroine's boyfriend a photographer this time instead of a checkout clerk, the movie loses the poignancy of their relationship ; Nikita liked her clerk precisely because he was completely lacking in aggression.

Now, wearing an outlandish dress, when I see myself kissing a dancing heroine's navel in some films, I feel ashamed.

Most notably, in the final episode of the first season of Buffy the escape of the vampire The Master and the heroine's temporary death occur entirely because she learns that they have been predicted.

In The Famous Flower of Serving-Men, the heroine's murdered husband appears to the king as a white dove, lamenting her fate over his own grave.

The heroine's first aria has a wistful melancholy reminiscent of Aaron Copland's earlier vernacular works and of Bernstein's later writing in West Side Story, while the jazzy interludes harken back to the score Bernstein wrote for On the Town.

In Puccini's opera Tosca ( 1900 ), set in Napoleonic Rome, the heroine's confrontation with the malevolent Chief of Police, Scarpia, takes place in Palazzo Farnese.

A heavily-modified M5A1 Stuart was featured in the movie Tank Girl as the eponymous heroine's tank.

Instead of functioning as an interlude or divertissement, the ballet provided key insights into the heroine's emotional troubles.