Word: inez
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lonely women in singles bars. Some mutter darkly about assassinating rapists if the courts will not convict. Feminists made a national cause celebre out of the case of Joan Little, the black woman acquitted of murder in the stabbing of a jailer who she says attacked her sexually. When Inez Garcia, a Chicane woman in Soledad, Calif., shot a man to death 27 minutes after he allegedly held her down during a rape, a smattering of feminists loudly applauded the act. Though troubled by this vigilante version of justice, Feminist Gloria Steinem asked: "But what do we do with...
...terrifying, and is the same attitude that women who have been raped later encounter in the law process. The offhand comment the rapist makes to one women hitchhiker--"It's all part of the fun of hitchhiking"-- finds its counterpart in the California juror who last week dismissed entirely Inez Garcia's outrage and fear and disgust at her alleged rapist: "He was just trying to show her a good time, that...
...your life, and nothing else," says Inez, triumphantly self-described as a bitch. All the characters know why they are there; they all spent their lives destroying things--Inez a marriage, Garcin his wife's trust, Estelle her baby. But Sartre is just as clear about death; you are what you make it. Inez, Garcin, and Estelle are locked in a barren room for eternity, and they have only each other to destroy. But destruction is not possible. They are already dead and so instead create a symbiosis of torture; Inez wants Estelle, and Estelle wants Garcin, Garcin only wants...
...exception is Gloria Fisher as Inez. Ms. Fisher reads her lines with a wonderful blend of absolute cruelty and sickly grace--Inez in her hands is truly frightening. The other two main actors do not even come close to Ms. Fisher. Joan E. Thompson as Estelle has the right idea at times, but for the most part she is just too nice. Estelle the baby-killer and Estelle the nice girl don't mix. David Sweeney as Garcin is the weakest of all; Garcin is a terribly tormented person, capable of the utmost barbarity toward his wife...
...black businesswomen turn to Women's Lib for help? Not at all. Explains Kansas City's Inez Kaiser: "This Women's Lib thing is created by a bunch of frustrated, middle-class white women who want to be liberated from the boredom of housekeeping. Black women have always had to work...