Word: longhair
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...main story line-the one that will remain after most of the rest of the plot has been cut away for a workable script-is about a Mexican-American Air Force sergeant who shoots and kills a hippie drug dealer on a military base in the Southwest. The longhair, a local counterculture idol, had deflowered the sergeant's rambling rose of a daughter...
Like the rest of the week, the scene was a combination of pathology and pathos. As some of the young earnestly and tearfully sought to move Congress with their message against the war, a longhair pranced naked before the Capitol. Montana Senator Lee Metcalf socked a cop in the chest for refusing to let him pass. Then, implacably, the police moved in to arrest yet another 1,000 and haul them off to jail...
...violence," Wilson says dryly, "is not the job of police officers." Blacks, whites and Congressmen of both parties are pleased by Wilson's aplomb. As one young longhair put it: "He's very definitely a nonneurotic...
...Said James E. Hammond, director of the Monterey office: "We feel that if a man has shoulder-length hair and his type of work is such that it requires public contact and the employers will not hire him, he has voluntarily restricted his chances of finding work." Hence the longhair is not entitled to unemployment insurance. The state office in Sacramento is backing Hammond. Only 3% of the employers surveyed want to hire girls who wear midi or micro-mini skirts either, but for the moment they are chivalrously being kept on the unemployment rolls...
...like to die. PETER: That is absolutely not true, think he knew, going in, that it wasn't true. I think he knew he was making violence in such an acceptable form that we would all groove on it as voyeurs. I was put down by my longhair, freaked-out friends, who said, "Man, you have violence in Easy Rider." But the violence I put in Easy Rider was unacceptable because it was unexpected. The violence in The Wild Bunch was expected and totally acceptable. When it is acceptable, you have already dealt with it in some past experience...