The heroes in Flynn's novels, however, are smart, complex women with dysfunctional families and psychological issues that I'm sure many women can relate to, despite the extreme murder-and-mayhem circumstances.
Then, at the opposite extreme, Max Bodenheim murdered in a Third Avenue rooming house, all proving that violent deaths are the only thing that can give writers now any immortality.
President Jacob Zuma said in a statement: "These gruesome incidents of extreme torture and murder of our children do not belong to the society that we are continuously striving to build together".
In fact, the rower, who is also studying for a PhD in homicide, and whose particular fascination is "psychopaths and extreme cases of murder", is adamant that decisions about the rest of her life will have to wait.
She said her office had monitored events in Mali for the past seven months, following a request by Mali's government, and there have been credible reports of extreme violence, including murder, rape, mutilation and summary executions.
There's nothing as extreme as a murder (as in "The Player") or political crisis (à la "Wag the Dog," the Hollywood-meets-Washington spoof on which Mr. Mamet worked as a screenwriter).
After the mini-apocalypse finale of the first series, he's now sworn off his more extreme tactics (ie murder), while the writers continue to raid the DC toybox, adding Black Canary and the League Of Assassins.
As for the first world war itself, modern scholarship regards it as the seminal catastrophe of the entire period, from which all the evils that plagued Europe in the following decades sprang: fascism, communism, racism, anti-semitism, dictatorship, extreme violence, mass murder, genocide and the wholesale abandonment of civilised values across the continent.
"Honor can only be restored through marriage – or, in extreme cases, through murder.
The Boulder County teen faces felony counts of first-degree attempted murder extreme indifference, use of explosives, possession of an explosive or incendiary device (both Class 2 felonies), and two counts of felony menacing (a Class 5 felony).
