A Sense Of Control

December, 2012

arilynmonroe, we called her.One word. Ukejohnwayne. Or .. Presidenteisenhower. Standing astraddle our bikes in a circle on some­one's front lawn. What did we mean by Marilynmonroe? This would have been before most of us had a clear understand­ing of the facts of life. I wonder how many of us had even seen a Marilyn­monroe movie. On a night when we were on our own, my dad took me to the Rialto to see Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. This filled me with some uneasiness. The movie was not precisely "...