The show was a tight hour-and-change – the audience were off the Garden grounds by 10.30pm – and while the crowd was decent-sized and suitably enthusiastic it was impossible not to feel that there should have been more of them there.
But on this snowy November night, onstage in front of the packed club, as Filter rips through a tight hour-and-a-half set, there are no chemicals.
But the program was more about hitting all the right buttons and mentioning most of the important people than it was about trying to be an all-time great finale — or even a tight hour of television.
The Patriots instead released Hernandez, their tight end, hours after his arrest.
However, with polling this tight 24 hours before voting begins, the election is self-evidently close.
As the standoff continued, a few of the protesters on the roof jumped down, but others sat tight for hours, according to witnesses and the Twitter stream of @Occupy_DC.
Mr. Foote, who is 92 and was most recently represented on Broadway with "Dividing the Estate," said in a telephone interview on Wednesday that he had been working for months to adapt the nine plays — known collectively as "The Orphans' Home Cycle" — into a "relatively tight" nine hours of theater.
It's well-made, cleverly designed, and has a narrative that just keeps on kicking through a tight two hours.
This trail around the legendary Cap d'Antibes packs a lot into its rather tight two hours of scenic drama, both natural and man-made: craggy cliff formations, stairways carved into stone and everything you would expect from a walk on the Mediterranean coastline.
On Wednesday, the Academy announced that it would be making a few "improvements" to adapt to our "changing world" by shortening the telecast to a tight three hours, moving the air date, and in what is likely a grab for better ratings—adding a new category for "Outstanding Achievement in Popular Film".
And, crucially, it's all over in a tight half-hour.
