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...Hearsts went to see Patty at the San Mateo County jail. Mrs. Hearst entered the cell first, embracing her daughter. Randolph Hearst kissed Patty on the forehead. No one spoke of Patty's life underground. "We were on thin ice," said Vicki later. "We didn't want to make her defensive, so we kept changing the subject if things were getting tense...
...happenin to Indian people?" A man with long black hair--once pigtails--tucked under his shabby raincoat complains to a caseworker that he can't get his welfare check cashed. No I.D. "I'm an Indian people," he slurs. His eyes are bulging out of deep-set sockets, his forehead protrudes and he seems perplexed, yet somehow he's managing the best he can. The social worker tells him there's nothing she can do, and he shouts at her as she walks away: "So what...
LATER ON in the film a black woman with a triangle of hair plastered down her forehead coming to a point right above the bridge of her nose fights for her friend's welfare eligibility. The case worker wants to stop the interview until the woman calms down. But she can't and the black woman has enough street smarts to know that the camera's presence gives her leverage...
...Squeaky took command of the clan and its hand-to-mouth living arrangements. With a handful of other followers, mostly women, she perched on the steps of the Los Angeles courthouse during the trial, shaved her head to protest his conviction and gouged an X into her forehead as a sign of loyalty. She later explained: "We have Xed ourselves out of this world." Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi wrote in his book Helter Skelter that the mutilations became a ritual for new members, "complete to tasting the blood as it ran down their faces...
...country and from almost every conceivable background. The administration is responsible for seeing that the whole thing gels somehow, in an orderly and friendly way, and that you will eventually justify its decision to admit you when you exit into the real world with the Harvard stamp on your forehead...