Word: clean-cut
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...values these groups for the “grounding” they provide him in maintaining his values and their respect for “people who are clean-cut and goal-oriented...
...Sept. 11 changed them too. Band of Brothers debuted on Sept. 9. Two days and 5,000 lives later, its tag line about ordinary people in extraordinary times was no longer a mere historical reference. On its release, the jacket art of The Corrections--a clean-cut family sitting at a holiday table laden with turkey, cranberry-jelly slices and radish rosettes--seemed like a Lynchian dig at Norman Rockwell Americana. Today the image just seems, well, nice. And before Sept. 11 a literate reader would most likely have identified with the novel's neurotic, sophisticated grown children. Today...
Last winter, I had dinner with my parents and two of my roommates at Legal Seafood in Kendall Square. During the meal, our clean-cut, college-age waiter asked us where we went to school. When we said Harvard, he nodded in a self-satisfied...
Sporting a scruffy, graying beard and a short ponytail, Cambridge City Council candidate James M. Williamson does not have the clean-cut look of a typical politician—something he takes pride...
...Under Fukuda, Koizumi also learned the importance of developing a personality. For as clean-cut as Fukuda was, he was unable to connect with the masses and thus lacked the power base from which to do battle with the Old Guard. Koizumi carefully cultivated the image of the Outsider. He avoided the restaurants where politicians lived it up and cut their backroom deals. "Faction bosses would go out with their underlings, drinking and singing," says Takao Toshikawa, a political analyst in Tokyo. "But they would all look around the restaurant, and someone would say, 'Where's Koizumi?' He never went...