Word: clean-cut
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...obsessiveness with which the old man pursues this perverse relationship, recounted in flashbacks after the son is arrested on suspicion of murdering him, is horrific. This is especially so since the lad is apparently everything his father is not--clean-cut, eager to please, lovable. But therein lies the story's cunning. For the father recognizes in his son qualities that they share. The son is wily, a demon for work, and not comfortable or clever with women, as he proves by sadly fumbling an office romance as he rises from clerk to partner in a law firm...
...clean-cut, J. Crew crowd seems to appreciate this ambience of moneyed leisure, but other passers-by are easily intimidated and leave after only a glance at the bar's pricey interior. Customers asking for a Bud Light will be disappointed--but then again, guzzling Bud isn't really the reason to visit Daisy's in the first place. Here paying $6 for a weak Jameson's and soda grants you license to be part of the scene, to drift softly among some of Boston's more beautiful bodies...
Even the bartenders in this room are a little more traditional. One, a clean-cut man of about twenty-five, is politely taking drink orders and serving them with a smile...
DIED. JACK LORD, 77, clean-cut actor who played his TV tough guys straight and a little bit square; of heart failure; in Honolulu. The West and its cliches suited Lord as the rodeo-going Stoney Burke, but he left the range for Hawaii Five-O. The locale changed, but his lawman soul didn't, as Detective ("Book 'Em, Danno") McGarrett on TV's longest-running crime drama...
...write the cover story, senior editor Joshua Cooper Ramo visited Intel chip plants on three continents and spent weeks studying the company, including two days traversing the valley with the peripatetic executive (after some Stanford students mistook the clean-cut journalist for a security man, Grove referred to his chronicler as "Agent Ramo...