1.   The accompanying musical segments could end abruptly, but the sense of resolution, symbolized by a circular procession, was felt at the end.

2.   The drawn-out elegiacal final segment ends with the former president in busy retirement at Monticello.

3.   The opening two-hour segment ends with current progress against cancer and AIDS.

4.   The segment ends with Mickey, during his cross examination of the witness, stabbing her to death with a pencil.

5.   When the segment ended for an advertisement, Ferraro turned up the tenor of her complaints to Ms. Kramer.

6.   The ceremonial segment ends with the extinguishing of the Olympic flame, burning since the opening ceremony in a cauldron towering above the stadium.

7.   The segment ended with an explosion mixing flashes of blue, red and white light.