cliffhanging

The scenarios for a cliffhanging election night are endless.

The Lancers almost pulled it out in overtime, only to lose eventually, 3-2, during this cliffhanging battle.

So of course the show can't have a cliffhanging season finale without talking about how tired that creaky technique is.

A snatch of quaintly melodramatic piano music is heard on the soundtrack, suggesting a cliffhanging moment in a silent serial.

The novel ends on a cliffhanging style, with the reader uncertain whether Kensaku would ever make it from his feverish state.

The cliffhanging finale of the Supreme Court term has turned that usually austere and dignified institution into something resembling daytime soap opera.

The review also praised the speaker John Keating, makes the production entertaining, and the cliffhanging conclusion is sure to have fantasy fans hoping for another installment.

Horne kept the action barely serious enough to satisfy action fans, and in fairness to Horne many of his cliffhanging perils are very effectively staged.

That stake helped win the bid for Sir Ralph Halpern, Burton's chairman, in a cliffhanging finish.

The Overture to the opera "Genoveva," with its cliffhanging harmonies at the start, was a vivid addition to the customary Schumann repertory.

The first hunk of the movie is a rip-roaring, chase-crammed safari adventure that peaks with one of the most suspenseful cliffhanging sequences ever filmed.

LEAD: The cliffhanging concern about "Miss Saigon" obscures the fact that this would appear to be a lively season for musicals.

These novellas, driven by the monsters of pretension and ambition that lurk in the groves of academe, meld post-modern farce with old-fashioned cliffhanging narrative.

They scraped past Western Samoa in a cliffhanging quarter-final (18-12) with a little help from an ostentatious refereeing display by Tony Spreadbury.

Generally, the first episode was 27 to 30 minutes long, and later episodes lasted from 12 to 15 minutes, each ending in a cliffhanging situation that impelled moviegoers to return.

George B. Seitz tried to follow the cliffhanging pattern of The Adventures of Kathlyn but each chapter was mostly self-contained.

In this latest instalment of his cliffhanging Saturday-morning philosophical escapades, Žižek announces: "The global capitalist system is approaching an apocalyptic zero-point."

The Lions believe they were robbed by first and last-minute decisions from Australian referee Brian Kinsey which gifted New Zealand eight points in a cliffhanging match.

The crashing introductory chords set against frail wind solos hint at all the cliffhanging blank spaces that will soon be set in our path before jolting us forward on our way.

The cliffhanging cadential phrases and the congering of submerged inner voices in Mr. Sherman's playing sound unusual if not extravagant, at least next to the customary and "generic" Beethoven performance.

MISMATCHES Iowa State (1-8) at No. 3 Nebraska (9-0) After its cliffhanging overtime victory over Missouri, Nebraska gets a breather.

It was looking just like a classic boring, musty, fusty Labour party Conference like all the others, and then it suddenly took off with the big OMOV debate and Smith's cliffhanging win'.

IN the latest cliffhanging chapter of "The Perils of Shoreham," the New York Legislature adjourns without voting on a pact under which the state would buy the nuclear power station for $1 and scrap it.

These include Tacy's attempts to cook dinner in a moving, rocking trailer, and later a cliffhanging ride on a narrow road through the mountains, with the trailer weighed down by many rock specimens and canned food she has collected.