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Peace and quiet figure heavily in some people's idea of a perfect Valentine's Day. "Someone would have a drawn, hot bubble bath waiting with a rose and a glass of champagne," says Yolanda Barrera, a proctor in Pennypacker Hall. "That's all I would want. Just Leave me alone to relax for a couple of hours...
...Hell is other people," complains Garcin (David Sonnenberg), the male of the group. And he's right, because in the existential subterranean setting of Sartre the characters simply cannot escape the company of one another. There is just no exit to which they can run. Garcin, Inez (Lyra Barrera) and Estelle (Jacqueline Sloan) are imprisoned together, in a small and tastelessly furnished room, for eternity...
...true strength of this particular production of No Exit, however, lies in the raw talent of its actors and the sophisticated directorial influence upon them. These performances smack of professionalism. When Barrera's biting tongue exclaims, "I can't get on without making other people suffer," we believe her. Heck, we cringe at her every caustic outburst...
...exchange for the release of the two women and 23 mayors and municipal officials who had been abducted by the rebels over the past six months. Duarte's critics condemned the swap, saying that the President ignored the mayors' plight until his daughter was taken hostage. Said Hugo Barrera, an industrialist and a conservative political leader: "He didn't act as a chief of state but as a father...
...Barrera and others also sharply criticized Duarte for sending two other daughters, a daughter-in-law and five grandchildren to the U.S. a few weeks after the abduction. Duarte says he has proof that a network of guerrilla spies closely monitored the activities of all his children and planned additional kidnapings. Indeed, he says, two other daughters narrowly escaped abduction attempts. But the critics contend that moving his own family to safety undermines confidence that the government can control the rebels. "If he doesn't feel secure, how secure should we feel?" asked Barrera...