Word: clean-cut
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When he first turned up at acting school in Sydney, the teachers were determined not to like him. "They admitted it later, after they were my friends," he says with his ready chuckle. "I was very clean-cut, hammy and let's-put-on-a-show. They were very Beckett and Chekhov." But the qualities that made him repellent to the Method types later made him a natural for those extra-credit activities, like being a host on awards shows (he did the Tonys in June) and Saturday Night Live (in late 2001), that get a novitiate supernova noticed...
...brainchild of songwriters Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, Avenue Q is the kind of place where the word of the day is schadenfreude and five nightstands rearrange themselves into a "one-night stand." Instead of spelling bees and ABCs, the characters, including Princeton, an earnest, clean-cut college grad, and his sometime girlfriend Kate Monster, a kindergarten aide, confront such grownup issues as unemployment, sex and the rent...
...Saturday the authorities got lucky. In the early morning hours, rookie cop Jeff Postell spotted a thin man in an alley behind the Save-A-Lot Food store in Murphy. The man, relatively clean-cut and wearing a camouflage jacket and sneakers, dashed behind a stack of milk crates. "He was very cooperative, not a bit disrespectful," says Postell, 21, who arrested him. Another officer called to the scene recognized Rudolph...
...public, Roberts was still the son of a former congressman. He tried his hardest to show a decent, clean-cut public image. During World War I he served in the Harvard unit of the Students’ Army Training Corps (SATC). And even as he continued to hold several male lovers, Roberts courted a young woman who lived in Brookline named Helen Gay Smith...
...loud, glory-seeking, ant-to-be-in-the-center-of-the action” kind of guy, is about ready for take-off. He’s a few parts history buff, spouting off obscurities like the exact dates that Hitler experienced bomb scares; a few parts clean-cut prep school good ol’ boy, all tucked-in polo shirts and khakis; a few parts all-American gentleman, opening doors and shaking hands and even drifting into a patriotic Southern accent despite being a New Jersey native as well as a first generation American whose parents are from Romania...