Word: beers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...follow the story, the newsmen bivouacked at the Kabul Inter-Continental Hotel, plying diplomats for information over ashak canapes (leek-stuffed pastry in a sour cream broth) and mutton, or drinking Czech pilsner beer in the hotel bar. Here one evening last week a sheepish employee announced that all American newsmen were to have their passports checked in the lobby by two Afghan policemen. Instead, the U.S. newsmen sallied forth with blazing floodlights and whirring film cameras. Terrified, the Afghan policemen fled. But the reprieve was short-lived. By 8 the next morning, armed Afghan police sealed off the hotel...
...talk to each other. They don't even look at each other. He sneers to himself; he laughs to himself: each in his own seat, sharing only the beer...and a shy Frank Reynolds. But suddenly, they are abandoned; America will be held hostage for 15 minutes tonight instead of 30 because the crisis is old news. They didn't expect this. Frank is gone. He has left them with only the shreds, and now the music is blaring under a barrage of credits and the anticipation of Police Woman...stay tuned...
...slug of beer. The two men cross the old newspapers in the living room to enter the kitchen. They attack the cabinets, the ice box, the cake, the ham, and stuff home a midnight feast. Light another cigarette. Look at the old headlines. Flip through an old magazine. Yawn. Suck on a cigarette. And one of them sighs, "Jesus. I wonder what the Russians are going to do? I mean, what do they really want to do? Do they want oil? Do they want the Middle East? The world...
...beer. Stuffs his mouth full of nuts. Behind the chomping of peanuts they can hear the muffled monologue of the TV in the apartment below. "Johnny Carson with his hands stuck in his pockets," the man says, spraying peanuts onto the floor...
...behind Hitler was a heroin junkie. He probably said things like that so many times, in all the papers, in all the movies, that people probably went crazy and started eating nuts and bolts." He looks coldly at the empty King of Beers, in which he has drowned his last cigarette. He looks around him. It is late, and the beer is all gone...