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Family Matters is a more clean-cut comedy but is, in its own way, equally outre. Steve Urkel, the Winslow family's gadget-obsessed neighbor, has grown from prepubescence to college age on the show but still dresses and talks like a four-year-old. Watching Urkel--played by the twentysomething and seemingly 6-ft.-tall Jaleel White--comport himself as though he should be in a play group is more disconcerting than anything that ever went on in The Twilight Zone...
...three female freshmen were late getting to bed, and lay for a time in their darkened dorm room at the U.S. Naval Academy, murmuring of their loves and dreams. Diane Zamora spoke of her boyfriend, David Graham, a handsome, clean-cut freshman at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado, whose photo nearby gazed upon the trio. "He'll always be faithful," Zamora said, "because I'll always have something on him." "Oh? What did you do? Kill somebody?" a roommate asked. Several long seconds of silence ensued, followed by more questions and then a confession. As her roommates told...
...School, meanwhile working as a dorm proctor and tutor. John Carnutte, now an immunologist in California, recalls arriving at Harvard from Dixon, Illinois, accompanied by his mother. "There were marijuana clouds over Harvard Square and all these protesters with long hair, and then we see this big, burly, clean-cut guy wearing a blue work shirt and smiling," Carnutte said. "He picked up my trunk locker on his back and carried it up four flights of stairs to my room and said he was going to take care of me. I felt a lot better about Harvard...
...world's most proficient drug smugglers. Savvy too: they realized their own comings and goings were being closely watched by antinarcotics agents in airports throughout Europe and the U.S. So they scoured after-hours joints in Navy ports of call, looking for dupes. "The key was a clean-cut appearance, a U.S. passport and the ability to be tempted by $25,000 to $30,000 for a weekend's work," says Lieut. Commander Bill Spann, the Navy spokesman in Naples...
...contrast, Hasselbach manages to come across as clean-cut, if a bit excessive. One reason is that nature has constructed him media-ready. Six feet six inches tall, blond hair, blue eyes, He was promoted by colleagues as an "Aryan poster boy," though a hipper, less political audience might conclude that he resembles a hardbitten David Bowie. That star quality was recognized early, in the communist German Democratic Republic where Hasselbach was born. In 1987 and 1988 he was twice jailed by the G.D.R. for publicly insulting the government. Pumped up in prison with the Nazi ideology and war stories...