And so on for a thousand and one nights, a new cliffhanger each dawn.
This is not because the EU is about to start holding late-night cliffhanger votes.
As the real-life trial draws to a close, will there be a cliffhanger ending as Sorkin suggests?
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Narrowly defined, a cliffhanger is a climax cracked in half: the bomb ticks, the screen goes black.
After a cliffhanger count, Mr Romney narrowly edged out Mr Santorum in Ohio, the night's most coveted prize.
Sometimes, two or three of those bits would get me to the action leading to the next cliffhanger.
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Fasten your seat belt, because even if it all works out well in the end, it will be a cliffhanger.
But less than a year later the first great TV cliffhanger emerged, and it changed the model of network television.
The final episode of series two was left with a cliffhanger after Brent begged not to be made redundant from Wernham Hogg.
When done poorly, the cliffhanger is all about shoddy craftsmanship, the creepy manipulation by a storyteller who has run out of tricks.
Even if it had been the cliffhanger that all of us, I think, were expecting, it would have been the same way.
Such is the old-fashioned, sentimental cliffhanger to which the screenwriter Simon Beaufoy and the director Danny Boyle have, with unembarrassed drive, committed themselves.
Still, with the 2012 election continuing to be a cliffhanger in many polls, the candidates are looking for every opportunity to win votes.
This cliffhanger is reminiscent of the federal estate tax law change that eliminated the federal estate tax for just one year in 2010.
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The Washington Post's Monica Hesse observed that Brown had "perfected the breathless art of the cliffhanger chapter, the ooky villain, the historish backdrop".
In 1994's mountain-climbing thriller Cliffhanger, Sylvester Stallone did most of the apparently death-defying stunts himself, while suspended by safety wires and protected by nets.
The final season will quickly resolve this year's assassination attempt cliffhanger, and fans can expect a time jump and a return to the suburbs.
But the early decades of prime time were pretty much cliffhanger-free, initially because television sets were luxury objects, as were many of the programs they aired.
After filing for bankruptcy, Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) stepped in to save the day, producing a season finale cliffhanger that left consumers wondering what would happen next.
The fiscal cliffhanger resolution, coupled with a strong start to earnings season, has fueled a strong stock market rally in the first full trading week of the year.
This historic cliffhanger does not lead to an action sequence.
Not to mention The Avengers ended on a blatant cliffhanger.
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For the installments in-between, I would start with the resolution of the last segment's cliffhanger, explaining, for instance, how Bolster, in his broken-down old Nissan Sentra, was able to outrun a Cadillac SUV driven by gun-toting thugs.
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