Word: reided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...post will then be turned over to Rocky's faithful Lieutenant Governor of those 15 years, Malcolm Wilson, 59, a conservative party loyalist. Rockefeller would thus avoid having to seek a fifth term in 1974 and the prospect of facing one of two hungry, popular Democrats: Congressman Ogden Reid or Howard Samuels, director of the New York City Off-Track Betting Corp. If he lost the election, his presidential hopes would be killed...
...cast is splendid to a man, but perhaps special praise should be meted out to Joseph Maher as a backbiting, working-class cynic, to John Wardwell as a much put-upon boss who reads his balance sheet of life in red ink, to Reid Shelton as the stoic foreman once jailed for embezzlement, and to Kevin O'Connor as a sweetly compassionate, but unsentimentalized, stuttering imbecile...
...Reid presents himself with remarkable honesty, warts and all; the adult Reid is no doubt aware of this or that immaturity, this or that blindness. Some will pounce on the fact that "John Reid" is a pseudonym; you may as well know that "Charles Bonnell" is, too. Reid does it to protect the privacy of everyone who has had contact with him; I use my real name at meetings like those of the Harvard-Radcliffe Gay Students Association. In contrast, some of Allen Ginsberg's partners have later found in the pages of Playboy all the details...
...Reid's story answers a lot of questions, and destroys a few myths held by many (gay men included). He has never had anal intercourse, he prefers not to have oral intercourse, and he mildly dislikes kissing. What's left? The question betrays a mechanical outlook towards lovemaking. Reid's first experience didn't even involve orgasm, because he was having so much fun he didn't notice or care about not having one. This is an attitude more people (gay men included) should be aware...
...short, Reid's book is good nostalgia for those out of their closets, a good education for those without closets, and hopefully a great relief to those of you still in your closets. In this last case, the best little boy in the world can help bring fast fast fast relief...