Word: turnly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rainbow is a coming-of-age story set in turn-of-the-century Britain, when the modern world was also coming of age. In its first sequence, little & Ursula Brangwen (who will grow up to be 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...
...look at their neighbors on the other side of the Iron Curtain to realize that there is indeed such a thing as Finlandization, but it is happening in the East, not the West. Moreover, it is happening with the approval of Moscow, which is encouraging its comrades to turn toward Paris, Bonn, London and Rome not just for economic help but also for political institutions and values...
...sacrificed by staying home to tend to her father, Haviland Morris the sister who opted to marry for money, Margaret Colin the one who drowned herself in the Molotov cocktail of alcohol laced with utter honesty. John Pankow excels as the village lad who romanced each girl in turn, settled for the one who would have him, and went on to a diplomatic career that eclipses the golden clan's luster in every mind but the one that counts...
MAYBE life is just an elaborate joke that everyone is in on but you. Maybe when you turn around, everything behind you disappears. Maybe English is just a gibberish language that only you really understand. Maybe reality is just a dream...
...communal nature of the production and its effort to involve the audience turn Hair into a ritual celebration of the 1960s, designed to transport both cast and viewers back to that mythical time. When the irresistible force of the "Let the Sunshine In" finale pulled the audience onstage to dance with the hippies, the childhood link was forged again...