"It was a very, very simple bowl, and the rim was thick but it twisted," he said.
With economic decay, war, persecution and unemployment gripping at least a dozen countries on Europe's southern rim, the surge of migration north has overwhelmed authorities in Europe, which has struggled to articulate a single coherent policy and, say critics, played into the hands of unscrupulous people traffickers.
If successful, he is likely to ask Congress to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership being negotiated with 11 other Pacific rim countries, including Japan, Vietnam, Canada and Mexico.
Some even own one of the Tuscan-style villas that rim the links.
The characters keep talking about the "great sex" they're having, but you think, "What great sex?" Sure, they rim each other, but that just makes you think back to the gratuitous food scenes littering this film.
The numbers of people – men, women and children – desperate to move north has risen drastically over the past 10 years, as war carves its way through countries such as Syria, Iraq, Central African Republic and South Sudan, and economic atrophy grips the sclerotic Mediterranean rim and troubled states further south such as Eritrea.
Not only were all the trains given creepy new faces that made them look as if Gollum had been stretched across the rim of a bass drum, but the Fat Controller was ousted in a dramatic coup and replaced by what appeared to be a dust-obsessed French policeman played by wilderness-era Alec Baldwin.
I find myself seated on a bench on the outer rim of Vanak Square, swarming with morality police, when another man takes a seat beside me.
Clean, empty jars White plasticine Model railway people and trees White glitter Epoxy glue Water Glycerin Build up a snowy hill out of white plasticine in the centre of your jar lid so you can see your figures over the rim of the jar.
If you've got rim brakes give the wheels an occasional wipe to help your stopping power.
Editions of the New York Review of Books, which normally stack up round my office like a rim of frozen slush, are finally getting a look in.
