In the noughties, when Suzanne Collins wanted to write about the invasion of Iraq, she wrote The Hunger Games, a piece of hypnotically violent science fiction.
He's the Dutch provocateur who became one of the biggest names in 80s-90s Hollywood, specialising in abrasively violent science fiction (RoboCop, Starship Troopers) and sexually intense thrillers and melodramas such as Basic Instinct and the flamboyantly brassy Showgirls – a film widely regarded as a bad joke, yet viewed in France as a highly serious artistic statement.
As the sequel, "The Matrix Reloaded," arrived in theatres this week, it was obvious that the strange, violent science-fiction film, by the previously more or less unknown Wachowski brothers, had already inspired both a cult and a craze.
Hurricane winds have been known to reach a velocity of 130 miles an hour, but the winds of a tornado are so violent that science has yet to devise a means of measuring them; on the basis of their demonstrated strenght it is safe to say that they travel at well over 300 miles per hours, and some meteorologists have put the figure at nearly twice that.
The U.K. government has strengthened legislation against extremists who resort to violent or threatening methods (Science, 4 February 2005, p. 659) and has urged police to take a tougher line.
As the founder of CeaseFire, an organization that uses a scientific methodology to curb violent behavior, Slutkin combines science and social justice to bring peace to Chicago's streets.
Special agent Fox Mulder was a seasoned FBI agent and an expert in behavioral science and violent crime, but by the early 1990s he'd become obsessed with a secret, forgotten collection of cases that involved unexplained phenomena.
Kershner directed only two more films, Never Say Never Again (1983), with Connery returning as Bond for the last time, and Robocop 2 (1990), an excessively violent sequel to the science-fiction hit, but he confessed that he loved his earlier movies best.
She has failed to grasp the planets and the laws of science, has proven violent in games and fakes asthma for attention.
Though still under construction, the International Monitoring System is already yielding a wealth of science spinoffs, detecting violent winds, volcanic eruptions and the crash of meteoroids from outer space.
Most compensation was pothole and water-related, but payments were also made for violent employees, wrongful arrests, and science experiments.
