Whether a shade appears daring or status quo depends on a mix of skin tone, eye color and gumption.
Here, Parks shows the remarkably handsome Red in a reflective mood; in the other photographs in the series, he appears daring and in control.
By the time Michael Howard, of all people, appeared daring to say that "it would be nice if Gordon Brown for once showed a little bit of grace" and Cameron himself had sermonised tendentiously about "Labour's poisonous legacy", we had dismaying proof that British politics was unlikely to change overnight.
Big speeches aren't new in series television, but programs like this one have been gone so long that for a whole new generation of viewers, they appear innovative, daring -- a break from the one-liner cruelty of situation comedy.
Governor Pataki ruled out any "job-killing taxes," but he appeared to be daring the legislators to reinstate some of the spending and take the heat for tax increases needed to pay the bill.
The standard repertory would have appeared in daring, even radical productions with contemporary resonances and strong, advanced points of view.
So it appeared a daring move when the world's largest fast-food company announced it was selling majority of its massive operations in China.
They may appear fierce or daring or avant-garde, but they are actually quite comfortable.
There's the obvious examples, like the tendency to condemn Israel while turning a blind eye to Iran - Christ, in the case of the man himself, even accepting money from Iran to appear on Press TV without daring to speak out against their institutionalised misogyny, homophobia and barbaric culture.
Last week, I stumbled across this article about Joan Lunden daring to appear bald on the cover of People magazine.
