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Part 1 of an autobiographical trilogy, Boyhood is the story of a boy forced to endure and imagine his way out of that barrenness.
The breakdown occasions a jigsaw of memories: of an upstate New York boyhood dominated by a local-hero dad; of doomed attempts to make it in the straight world of Manhattan advertising; of romantic humiliations at the hands of perky centerfold blondes; and, finally, of dreamlike interludes in sadistic mental hospitals.
Today once again everything in the paper seems like an artifact from my boyhood: Victor Borge getting the Kennedy Center national-cultural-treasure award (I know it's churlish to begrudge a 90-year-old man his prize ... but Victor Borge?), the putative excitement over IMAX movies (it's Cinerama circa 1959 all over again), ur-suburboid Procter & Gamble products in the news (Cheer, Crest, Ivory, Tide, Jif), Keith Richards and Eric Clapton and Stevie Nicks and Chrissie Hynde performing en masse on tour.
His boyhood was marked by immersion in astronomy and telescope-making, but saddened by the painful illness of his sister.
He sobbed when he paid a recent visit to Ike's boyhood home in Abilene, Kan.; when he retired from the Senate earlier this summer; when he visited his hometown of Russell, Kan., in March; when he helped plant Nixon in Whittier in 1994; when he talked on 60 Minutes in 1993 about his father visiting him in the hospital; when he attended a Senate party in 1992 for the defeated George Bush; whenever he hears "You'll Never Walk Alone" (which he played continuously during his recovery); during a Ford/Dole campaign stop in Russell (he always seems to cry in Russell) in 1976, which he included in a later campaign video.
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