I remembered Todd as the earnest red-haired student perched forward in his chair, with taut intensity and bright eyes and upraised nodding chin: the most memorable person in the class.
Ms. Wallis, Mr. Zeitlin and other Beasties were off to Los Angeles by midweek to repeat the circuit of red carpets and earnest congratulations.
But Mr. Hayward, an earnest-looking man with cherubic red cheeks and a soft British accent, remains ever present in BP's response efforts.
Greeted by 30 women, 15 of whom happened to be wearing red dresses, Nick seemed earnest in his quest to find a woman with whom he can spend the rest of his life.
Lana Wachowski, who until 2002 was Larry Wachowski and now has a mop of red, Raggedy Ann dreadlocks, is earnest and thoughtful.
Discovering the killer's identity should be a fairly easy task, but, the boy being adopted, Pirie and her sidekick, the doltish but earnest DC Jason Murray, find themselves in a maze of red tape.
Are we simply being told that heavy guys – guys who are, in fact, mob 'heavies' – like Americanised Italian food in a lot of red sauce, conveyed to the lips with earnest gusto?
He showed up on TV on Saturday afternoons in his red-white-and-blue Elvis suits, giving earnest stay-in-school speeches.
And Joshua, an earnest Long Island Quaker kid with a close-trimmed, pious-seeming red beard, who played guitar and protested apartheid, which I pretended to be concerned about, too, although I wasn't certain what it was.
Despite a red kerchief adorning his breast pocket, Mr. Sinatra is earnest and sober, a demeanor perfectly suited to an undertaker.
Nine months after the charming, red-headed 10-year old questioned me in earnest, I'm still left pondering, 'What's progress?'.
