Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Historically, the movie actors who have got the most out of acting gay have been those who have played camp roles. No one confused Robert Preston with his outrageous queen in Victor/Victoria, Tom Courtenay with his prissy, mincing backstage assistant in The Dresser, or William Hurt with his flamboyant spinner of dreams in Kiss of the Spider Woman. All three were thought to be brave, tour de force performances...
...Reagan Moscow testament will ring out for years, thanks to those good men. Yes, Griscom is taking his leave, and so is Gilder, who is off to do speeches for George Bush. But that is the way in this Government. Sometimes it does hurt, but often it brings its own special strength. Renewal...
...succeeding. Generals and admirals have become adept at making end runs around their own civilian chiefs to enlist the support of sympathetic Congressmen. And for all their bellowing about vast sums of money wasted on weapons that do not work, few legislators will vote for military economies likely to hurt their own districts. One example: the Pentagon could save perhaps $2 billion a year by closing unneeded military bases, but Congress has not permitted a major base closing since...
Chief Justice of the U.S. William Rehnquist, at Marquette University, Milwaukee: "When you are young and impecunious, society conditions you to exchange time for money, and this is quite as it should be. Very few people are hurt by having to work for a living. But as you become more affluent, it somehow is very, very difficult to reverse that process and begin trading money for time...
...halt, before gradually starting up again. By establishing the relations between words, punctuation establishes the relations between the people using words. That may be one reason why schoolteachers exalt it and lovers defy it ("We love each other and belong to each other let's don't ever hurt each other Nicole let's don't ever hurt each other," wrote Gary Gilmore to his girlfriend). A comma, he must have known, "separates inseparables," in the clinching words of H.W. Fowler, King of English Usage...