DAN: I can't imagine anything worse than one guy with a gun bent on mass murder in a room full of unarmed people.
In painfully sharp contrast, 20 year-old James Howell, who himself had served time for pointing a gun at a neighbor, acquired an enormous arsenal and drove from Indiana to LA, apparently bent on mass murder at the LA gay pride parade.
In 1828 a group of conspirators in Bogotá, tiring of his dictatorship, broke into the presidential palace bent on murdering him.
Consider his Sam Stone in dark comedy Ruthless People (1986), a millionaire businessman bent on murdering his wife (Bette Midler); Gavin D'Amato, the super-sleazy lawyer in pitch-black marital farce The War Of The Roses (1989), which DeVito also directed; or the wickedly entertaining villain the Penguin in Tim Burton's Batman Returns (1992).
Unlike the Middle Easterners bent on mass murder when they crashed jetliners into the World Trade Center last year, the five Croatian nationalists who hijacked a Chicago-bound airliner after it left La Guardia Airport in September 1976 insisted that killing had not been their aim.
Another time he called them "a host of enemies bent on pillage and murder".
He falls first for the feisty Iside, bent on avenging the murder of her father, and then Calisto, a follower of the goddess Diana, pledged to virginal purity.
The most draining aspect of my job is reading intelligence reports on terrorists "bent on maiming and murdering", he says.
He said the most draining part of his job was reading daily reports of terrorists "bent on maiming and murdering" people in Britain.
Also on stage are stacks of hacked-down pine trees — Gesualdo is said to have cleared his lands so that anyone bent on avenging the murders could be seen approaching.
