Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Last weekend the Harts sat and talked. They had often discussed the kinds of personal questions they might expect from the press. Now Lee told her husband she was afraid that he might be hurt badly, but in the end she could not be the one to stand in his way. Both their children wanted him to get back in. They felt he had looked weak by withdrawing. By the end of the weekend the decision was made...
...spoke, his hurt and anger became visible. "What is this need to destroy me?" he asked. For all his detachment, Hart remains vulnerable. He is determined not to speak about his personal life, but the subject is never far from his mind. He wants his reputation back. "Let's talk about character," he said. "I'm not an immoral man. I can't believe that even press people think I'm an immoral...
Although 52% said Hart should have re-entered the race, 41% predicted the move would "hurt the Democrats in the 1988 election." Only 30% said it would help. In assessing what descriptions apply to Hart, he got high marks for intelligence (87%) and courage (64%). But 53% of those polled agreed that "uses good judgment" is a description that does not apply to him. More than 40% said Hart "should be a character in a soap opera...
...help her husband. But her obvious agony can only raise more questions about his compassion -- if not his judgment. As tense as she appeared last week, she was also determined. "I don't care anymore," she told TIME. "I can handle whatever gets printed. Our family can't be hurt anymore. I don't think there's anything we can't endure...
...middle class is very hidden," says a 47-year-old woman who five years ago fled her violence-prone husband, the owner of an upstate New York automobile dealership. "I know of quite a few women who won't get out because they're afraid it will hurt their image or because they don't have the financial means." Some women manage to justify the beatings as a trade-off for status and security...