In 1980, it came after the lone debate, when Ronald Reagan's smooth, reassuring performance turned a tight race into a walkover.
In this case, the Drilling Company's new production of "Julius Caesar," it's Selene Beretta as Cassius, and she gives a fierce, powerful performance in a tight skirt and high heels as the leader of the assassins who murder Caesar on the Ides of March.
The only question left after Vernon Davis of the 49ers torched the Saints for 180 yards, and Rob Gronkowski of the Patriots scored three touchdowns against the Broncos, is whether either of them surpassed Kellen Winslow for the greatest postseason performance by a tight end in N.F.L. history.
A performance which keeps a tight rein on excess, however, can always make us forget any mawkish tendency in this most symphonic and Wagnerian of scores, surely Elgar's most brilliant.
There will not be much opportunity for backstage backslapping: like all the acts, Razorlight only get a changing room for an hour either side of their performance, which is a tight 10 minutes.
During their winning performance, Val wore a tight black shirt open to his belly with sheer, shimmery sleeves, and Diana wore a bright orange sequin dress that she designed with giant safety pins down the front and a matching orange flower in her hair.
The crew displayed the boat's nimble, high-performance maneuvers, cutting a tight bank-turn and stopping the craft on a dime by stuffing its bow into the water, causing a near-pitchpole.
"One of the phrases that kept running through the conversation was 'pushing the outside of the envelope.' The 'envelope' was a flight-test term referring to the limits of a particular aircraft's performance, how tight a turn it could make at such-and-such a speed, and so on.
Similar comments apply to the parameter rate, as one might be interested in guaranteeing the stable operation of the closed-loop system also for "fast" rates, while requiring a tight performance level only for "relatively slow" rates.
We don't need a "tight" performance from some indie no-hopers.
