1.   There was a blank period of no-memory, like a black dreamless sleep, followed by a slow awakening to events too horrific to contemplate.

2.   Another subplot that only limps along is the inner conflict of Mother Madalyn, whose past includes a horrific event involving Indians, which explains her surprising prejudices.

3.   Better to have the children in school, officials reasoned, than at home watching horrific events on the news.

4.   Better to have the children in school, officials reasoned, than be at home watching horrific events on the news.

5.   Advertising and marketing campaigns are rippling with red, white and blue, and consumption is equated with patriotism stirred by horrific events.

6.   But Anton Boll, who helped design the bomb, also is shattered by his role in the horrific events.

7.   But even before those horrific events, it was shaping up as a busy season on the nonfiction side of television.

8.   But police and civic officials were careful to play down any notion that such a horrific event had any cultural underpinnings.

9.   But Tagliabue decided this crisis presented too many questionable, and potentially dangerous, intangibles that made playing through this horrific event a nearly impossible task.

10.   From a Western point of view, this anger turns on its head the meaning of a horrific event in which thousands of Americans were the victims.