1.   And the recorded performance became a collaborative self-portrait, with the songwriter suggesting the pose and the arranger creating the background.

2.   Bean is properly romantic in the early going, although his performance becomes progressively stiffer as the tragedy unfolds.

3.   Bernstein was prone to maunder in his later years, and all too often performances became ponderous and leaden.

4.   But after a point, their performances become the point.

5.   But there must also be a chapter that describes what happened when this extraordinary performance became ordinary, or worse.

6.   But visually, the performance becomes a spectacle.

7.   By comparison, he added with typical modesty, when the partnership ended, a dance performance became a routine event.

8.   Every day, historical performance becomes a little less like an ideological mind-set, a little more like a performing tradition separate from but alongside the mainstream one.

9.   His game performances are becoming events.

10.   His performance becomes a shyly eloquent response, and finally a desperate rebuttal, to everything Thurman does.