Court records suggest that the killings may have been the bitter ending of Mr. Cipriani's love affair with the wife of one of the owners.

The album's brilliant finale, "Empty Cans," gives the story a bitter false ending and then rewinds to revise the ending and the music.

Jets fans are used to season-ending collapses, and so only the most faithful did not steel themselves for this bitter ending.

But court records unsealed here on Monday suggested the motive for the killings may have been the bitter ending of a love affair.

What of Mr. Mamet's original bitter ending, Mr. Foley was asked.

Her whole life was a tragedy, just waiting for a bad and bitter ending.

Still, Torre sensed, Steinbrenner seemed to have moved past the season's bitter ending, a first-round playoff loss despite a $203 million payroll.

It was a bitter ending.

It had the makings of an intricate ensemble opera, a wry comedy of manners but with a bitter ending.

To his credit, Hartstein, despite this bitter ending, would have none of that.