Word: clean-cut
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...architect who drew a sketch of the pocket park in front of Holyoke Center populated it with clean-cut collegiates strolling briskly to some important engagement. He clearly did not foresee that the park would be taken over by sedentary hippies mulling over the virtues of tuning in, turning on, and dropping...
...sandal epics, he converted to shoot-'em-ups three years ago. To lend a scent of sagebrush to his first western, Leone changed his name to Bob Robertson and imported Clint Eastwood, a lanky, rawboned drover on TV's Rawhide. Eastwood's image was too clean-cut for an antihero, so Leone added the necessary smudges-slouch hat, black cheroot, stubble beard and a ratty-looking scrape. For the villain's role, he hired veteran horse-opera heavy Lee Van Cleef, and the shooting commenced...
...advanced -not enough outlets, weak promotion, bad odds (1,000,000 to 1 for top prize of $100,000), and the unexciting legality of the whole thing. Some gamblers feel that their pastime has to be more attuned to the raffish ways of Moe the Gyp than to the clean-cut operation of Nelson the Rock. The mystique has to do with smoky back rooms and the smell of the paddocks, with whispered hunches and looking bored while four aces burn a hole in your hand...
...deceptive air of wide-eyed innocence that the cornier the material, the louder the laughs. A more apt name for them would be the Mothers' Brothers. "We attract the kind of fans that want to mother us," says Dick, 28. "We're so college-looking and clean-cut," says Tom, 30. "The American Legion likes us and so does the left wing." And so does every wing of the younger generation. The boys have the jug-eared look of Nebraska citybillies, or malt-shop cowboys. Even when they are mildly suggestive, they seem as harmless as two choirboys...
...still the photographer was not satisfied. "You look too uniform, too uniform," he groaned to the group, directing one clean-cut type to take his shoes off and another to put his feet on the desk...