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Foes and doubters will probably see further evidence of his gradual decline in this heart-stopper stretched over three hours and 19min, which ultimately went Federer's way 6-2, 6-2, 4-6, 4-6, 6-3, and he too may feel under more pressure now than he did at the start of the tournament.

Australian Open 2011: Andy Murray v Illya Marchenko - live! 2011

Francis Bacon -- A Centenary Retrospective -- By contrast, this 2009 heart-stopper was not only a real retrospective but a bit of genuine art history as well.

Robert Ayers: Top 10 Art Events of the Last Decade Robert Ayers 2010

That is always the heart-stopper in any conversation about Afghanistan, terrorists and Pakistan's nukes.

McChrystal Forces Us to Focus 2010

Francis Bacon -- A Centenary Retrospective -- By contrast, this 2009 heart-stopper was not only a real retrospective but a bit of genuine art history as well.

Robert Ayers: Top 10 Art Events of the Last Decade Robert Ayers 2010

Bonus heart-stopper: Applebee's actually invites customers to top the fries with chili and still more cheese.

Janice Taylor: Xtreme Eating Awards 2009: Food Morality? 2009

Plus, her mac and cheese recipe is a heart-stopper (calls for something like a quart of heavy cream) but is the best ever!

AFL-CIO's Internal Polling Shows Dramatic Gains For Obama Among Rust Belt Union Members 2009

Charles does not have an extensive collection of his work online, going through these pages and seeing so much work in one sitting is a heart-stopper.

Archive 2009-03-01 Irene Gallo 2009

Danks, who has impressed his team all season with his bulldog mentality, was all gonads Tuesday, pitching the game of the year for the Sox, as they beat the Twins in a 1-0 heart-stopper to clinch the AL Central in the 163rd game of the year, and give Chicago two playoff teams for the first time in 102 years.

Jon Greenberg: Balls in Our Fields: Chicago Says Let's Play Two 2008

Critics and audiences were roundly unkind to RIGHT AT YOUR DOOR, with The Boston Globe's Ty Burr stamping it "a 96 minute whimper" (hey, I get it!) and Variety's Todd McCarthy (apparently leaning heavily on his computer's hyphen key) declaring the film "a wannabe heart-stopper (whose) ironic ending is a shoulder-shrugger."

"I'm still alive!" Arbogast 2008

And the last story in the book, Cockfighter - at 80 pages more a novella than a short story - is a real heart-stopper.

Between Pussy and Elephant: Gritty Social Reality Sharon Bakar 2005