Wading in a pool of what tasted like water, roasted duck breast had no redeeming qualities.
Both forms of dependence are worsened by competition for the same pool of what Brussels considers star speakers: European commissioners, top officials and a few senior members of the European Parliament.
What Mr. Mor calls his "game changer" is India's large talent pool of what are known as "Ayush" doctors, practitioners of Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha medicine, who are trained in indigenous medical education.
Carey dons a traditional bridal gown and veil with a 27-foot train in one of her videos; Minaj sports a green Medusa wig in a swimming pool of what looks like Pepto-Bismol, flanked by beefy men in boxer briefs, in one of hers.
London has installed cameras on the bottom of the pool, and occasionally — less often than I would have liked, but probably as often as the organizers dared — we would be granted cutaway shots, screened at the ends of the pool, of what was going on down there.
As Kate Bolick wrote in a much-discussed article in The Atlantic last fall, American women face "a radically shrinking pool of what are traditionally considered to be 'marriageable' men — those who are better educated and earn more than they do".
Instead of dipping into the talent pool of what they see as a competing format, the IKF has furnished its own, lesser experienced, rosters for the fledgling contingents at the World Cup with little explanation of the selection process or what the standards for inclusion may be.
Using common images recycled from the vast pool of what circulates, Mr. Brodsky irregularly outlines figures or objects in a manner that skips, eliminates and blurs definitions, much like video material blown up to where a form begins to disintegrate and fall apart.
