1.   Audience members there only for the hardcore music smoked cigarettes and nursed beers by the bar.

2.   Benny Willis and Stan Wooten of Lake Blackshear, Ga., the Hot Shots are nursing beers and looking as glazed as their pigs.

3.   Greco was nursing his beer at Chesterfield, where Bainbridge has also had to adjust his business, and his menu, to the crisis.

4.   He ate at the same few restaurants, nursed his beers at the same few pubs, visited the same few friends.

5.   Inside, Australian Tony Glenister nursed a beer and watched the show outside.

6.   Some sit sullenly in the backs of clubs nursing beers, avoiding the women and looking for easy targets.

7.   You must become a member of a given establishment to knock back a margarita at closing time or nurse a beer while listening to a wee-hours band.

8.   Nursing a beer or sipping coffee, they recount their experiences to groups of wide-eyed local Serbs.