For a moment I focus on the glass and catch the faint, honest reflection of my eye staring back at me, a lock of gray straggly hair in its way.

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Her skin, every follicle and flaw in focus in the ground glass of his lens, had the same sun- and sea-wind weathering, but fainter, of the stones of the Californian desert, and her hips had the convolutions of the naked mountains.

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This year with Gorilla Glass 3, just introduced at CES 2013, the focus was on making the tough, durable glass even stronger.

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But I really want to focus on the half-full part of the glass tonight, not the half-empty.

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If you have a glass half-empty view, you can focus on the overall drop compared to a year ago.

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The magnifying glass of the media is now zooming in on Sokol, but the focus should be directed at Buffett as well.

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Building on last year's "Glass and Metal" design concept, the 2013 VIERA models continue to focus on sleek designs while delivering pristine picture display and superior sound quality.

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The museum's kids Web site has activities to keep kids entertained while visiting, including guides that focus on specific areas of art like a scavenger hunt, from animals to doors to stained glass.

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There will also be an opera by Philip Glass, based on Franz Kafka's The Trial, part of ROH's focus on making new work "the core of what we are".

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