In George Booth's edgy cartoon from 1970, a writer is so caught up in his own creative process that his wife, on the edge of madness from her husband's self-absorption, pitches him an idea that reveals her homicidal rage.
Yes, the film has a potent climactic monologue, but by that time it's already sold the insulting/offensive idea that all a homicidal dictator needs to reform his evil ways is the love of a good woman.
Haven't we, as a society, gotten past the idea that a woman pursued by a homicidal maniac is good entertainment?
Amis falls back on the weak idea that he was mad, an envious loner driven into homicidal lunacy by the taste of power, and argues that when he did sensible things, like defeating Hitler, he stopped being mad.
My revolver comment won me a year's worth of psychiatric counselling, weekly meetings with Dean Guest, and — since the parents of the roommate I'd never met weren't too hip on the idea of their Amy sharing a bunk bed with a budding homicidal loony — my very own room.
The eyewitness and documentary evidence, he suggests, is so overwhelming that 'some other reason must be sought to explain [Irving's] devotion over many years... to the bizarre idea that no significant numbers of people were murdered in the homicidal gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau'.
We're particularly proud of the idea that advertising a "gun-free school" is an open invitation to homicidal crazies.
The idea of an elephantine hanging was opposed by animal-rights activists (though another homicidal elephant, Murderous Mary, was indeed hung in Erwin, Tennessee, in 1916 .Enter Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb.
They are "doing homicidal violence in 'wolf packs,' " wrote John DiIulio, then a professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton, who helped popularize the idea of a "demographic crime bomb".
It's also strange to dwell on James Cameron's idea of an early 80s nightclub for punks and hipsters, as well as his not-far-beneath-the-surface homicidal hatred of those selfsame punks and hipsters.
