In rough outline, "The Murder Room" is strikingly similar to James's previous mystery, "Death in Holy Orders".
All this leads up to a Grand Guignol finale, featuring rape, murder, rough sex, and bizarre cutaways to crocodiles.
Through Bob, though, we were introduced to oddities like Moonlight and Pretzels, Love in the Rough, Sitting Pretty, Murder at the Vanities and songs by Hollywood tunesmiths like Harry Revel and Mack Gordon, Richard Whiting, Ralph Rainger, Harry Warren, Al Dubin, Herman Hupfeld, Johnny Mercer and Sam Coslow.
The killing of Jennifer Levin, 18, by Robert E. Chambers Jr., 19, in 1986 also contributed to the culture's cornucopia of catch phrases, with entries like "preppie murder" and "rough sex".
Stand With Us, a pro-Israel nonprofit organization in Los Angeles, posted the following version of the speech under the title "Uncivilized Tactics at U.C. Irvine (Rough Cut)": "Michael Oren, propagating murder is not an expression of free speech!" one student shouted early in Mr. Oren's presentation, before being escorted from the theater.
She became a case worker for the city's welfare offices, visiting clients in rough neighborhoods uptown, "your big murder alleys," she said.
The radical Islamists who controlled the north for 10 months have been accused of similar abuses, including murder and the rough application of Shariah law — the stoning of adulterous women and the cutting off of the hands of thieves.
Listening to the lyrics of a Jay-Z song about rough sex with a prostitute and murder, Mr. Krulwich says, "I find this music offensive".
He is accused of murdering an actress during rough sex, and Hollywood is accused of being the kind of place that lets him get away with such behavior because his films are successful.
Campaigning was rough: the fascists employed fraud, intimidation and murder.
