11.   Tales now unfolding here of fortunetelling scams and plots against lonely old people reinforce the ethnic stereotype of cunning thievery that has bedeviled Gypsies for a millennium.

12.   They depend on it, in the way lonely people turn to television for the illusion of companionship.

13.   When he leaves for more wine, Erin looks around the restaurant and notices all the lonely people around her.

14.   With a fine appreciation for the nuances of polite repression, Sautet makes a quiet, careful study of these two lonely people.

15.   Other lonely elderly people were also targeted.

16.   --To provide lonely old people with a conversation partner.