They went hand-in-hand with Red Red Meat, in my mind: rock that could only happen in an entirely out-of-focus version of itself.
The rarely seen "Only Yesterday 199191) is drawn in the flat, meticulously detailed style common to much of Japanese animation that at its best — and this is certainly one of those cases — looks like a soft-focus version of photorealism.
The firm, Abrams Research, may resemble a narrowly focused version of "expert network" firms that connect investors to industry experts.
Renay Peters-Joubert sang an appealingly focused version of "This Little Light of Mine," a tribute to the folk singer Odetta, who died last month.
With the new, smaller and more focused version, Mr. Taubes openly admits he is aiming for a broader audience and bigger impact.
In Sunday's Automobiles section, Lawrence Ulrich reviews the 2013 Porsche Boxster, a slimmer, faster and more focused version of the sports car introduced by the German automaker 16 years ago.
"Get Lost," his new record on Editions Mego, is a crystallized and focused version of the sweeter stuff, much of it played on multitracked acoustic guitar with a bit of layered, droney vocals and analog synthesizer counterlines, twinkling and chugging.
There were titans up for the job who didn't remain in the race for various reasons," he acknowledges when we meet again, this time at the London Coliseum – where I encounter a less discursive, more focused version of the man.
Ann Temkin, the museum's chief curator of painting and sculpture and the coordinator of the Oldenburg exhibition — a more focused version of a show first seen at Vienna's museum of modern art — referred to "The Street" (1960), Mr. Oldenburg's first mature work, as "an absolute masterpiece".
The China focused version of Ask.com will be available "within 2 years".
