Word: inez
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...imagine, therefore, all 180 degrees of love triangles--hate triangles, too--which pierce the already dismal dramatic situation. Garcin, a cowardly journalist who neglected his wife, finds himself attracted to Inez, who was a mail-clerk and a lesbian. Unfortunately for Garcin, the dead Inez has retained her latter tendencies. Misanthrope that she is, Inez, in turn, finds herself attracted to the baby-killer Estelle, a vacuous, fallen debutante who wishes Hell had mirrors. And, completing the triangle, poor little rich Estelle would just love to jump in the sack with Garcin...
...Garcin hates Estelle who hates Inez who hates Garcin. It's quite simple, really...
...many victims of the burnout, the healing will take a long time. Most had lost not only the practical hard goods of existence but the small, irreplaceable mementos and icons of a lifetime. Inez Nichols had recently installed new carpeting and bathroom appliances in the home she and her late husband had bought 27 years ago, but knew she would miss most poignantly what had been the only existing pictures of her mother and spouse. Nadine Fosky, 22, "lost, quite simply, everything." Clothes. School papers. Her special Buddhist chanting scroll. She anguished over it all -- even over the very special...
...Inez's family, especially her outspoken sister Janet, makes a miniature of a comfortable colonial society, charming and eccentric at home, but living by hard deals everywhere else. The crisis in Democracy comes when Inez's father Paul, a voluble lunatic, shoots Janet to death, and Inez, mystified but somehow released, leaves her old life to go with Lovett to Hong Kong just before the fall of Saigon...