Word: mcgann
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...played by an intense Sammi Davis) races dangerously close to the water, reaching out for the title symbol. As she leaves home in the final sequence, another rainbow arches above her, beckoning her onward. In between, she experiments with lesbian and heterosexual lovers (Amanda Donohoe and Paul McGann, respectively), endures a bleak passage as a teacher in a working-class school and witnesses the end of an Edenesque England. All these experiences test her, stir her questing spirit and lead her finally to feminist independence, which was never more attractively stated than it was in these early, innocent days...
...restorative powers of the pastoral: the thatch tight on the cottage roof, the peat glowing on the grate, the cattle posing for a painting by Constable. The vision is especially poignant if you are as deeply down as was the "and I" of the title (played by Paul McGann) and as angrily out as his roommate Withnail (Richard E. Grant) when they were aspiring actors in London two decades...
...landslide victory climaxed the most divisive and bloody campaign experienced by the island since it became independent from Britain in 1962. Fierce party loyalties divided the black ghettos of Kingston block by block, and many on both sides took to carrying guns. One of the casualties was Roy McGann, 43, a junior Cabinet minister and People's Party candidate for reelection, who happened to drive near a Labor Party rally; a fracas broke out, and McGann was shot and killed. Officials estimated that more than 500 people have been killed this year in fratricidal bloodletting...