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cliffhanger

a situation of imminent disaster usually occurring at the end of each episode of a serialized film
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As for the 21 year-old Lame Isaac of Lotlhakane East near Kanye, the anxiety and curiosity that naturally comes with movies ending with a cliff-hanger have fueled her passion and creativity to pen her debut book entitled the scent of a woman.
And there was almost a cliff-hanger duff duff when the guinea fowl refused to cook quickly enough and Jack's chocolate tart was perilously wobbly.
Director Peter Jackson and his collaborators, including cinematographer Andrew Leslie and composer Howard Shore, have cast this second film in the mould of The Two Towers, replete with cliff-hanger ending that sees the forces of evil marshalling an army and preparing for war.
Director Peter Jackson and his collaborators including cinematographer Andrew Leslie and composer Howard Shore, have cast this second film in the mould of The Two Towers, replete with cliff-hanger ending that sees the forces of evil marshalling an army and preparing for war.
Following on from the European Parliament's lead, the Council of Ministers signed off, on 25 October, on the new spending rules for EU funds after a cliff-hanger deal was struck in late June.
Producers of the Channel 4 show have revealed that the same plot is to feature as a cliff-hanger two-part story during the current series, which was filmed months ago.
Dubai Mo'en Ahmad won a cliff-hanger against Xavier Raphel to storm into the final of the India Club Western Union UAE Open Badminton tournament.
It has everything from a love interest, to ruthless competition within the aviation industry that includes the prospect of Nazi sabotage, riveting cliff-hanger action, and the colorful aviation patosis of the period.
The result is every bit the engaging 'cliff-hanger' of a read and enthusiastically recommended for both community library collections and the personal read lists of contemporary detective fiction.
Games between these two sides are usually close but this one was a real cliff-hanger, writes Barri Hurford.
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