But in that hideous event, Selig promised one team will surely lower its prices: his Milwaukee Brewers.

Every other hideous event this season will be a payback for letting this happen.

The hideous events of the day before had been wiped away with a solid night's sleep and now, in the clear light of a crystalline day, seemed remote and unreal-shadows only.

It takes longer to tell the tale than it did for the hideous event to happen.

He was able to describe hideous events he had witnessed in an easy, unaffected manner.

It was hard to believe that anything could be worse than Tuesday's hideous events, when one atrocity followed another, hour after hour.

Historian of Japan Peter Duus has called this assassination a "hideous event, crudely conceived and brutally executed."

"Without any kind of guide after that hideous event we had to find an anchor," Mr. Kellogg said recently at his Lincoln Center office.

A sameness sets in with the pattern and delivery of anecdotes, a dutiful description of a hideous event followed by the consequences to and reactions of the victims.

Rosenberg said he still saw a way Tonya Harding could save something from this hideous event.