And the red-haired boy now proudly displays a new haircut, a bristling flattop that would make a marine proud.
In her class is a thin, red-haired boy named Seth, toward whom she is attracted; she feels silly being attracted to someone so much younger.
But she had never known those names, only that the red-haired boy was called Mano and had himself addressed his two companions as "cowboy".
She finds a discarded raw chicken, still in its plastic wrapping, and hands it down to a little red-haired boy.
There were even times in school which I enjoyed: making model planes of balsa wood, and a tree house with a friend, a red-haired boy of my own age.
In these photos: a Korean named Jai, a red-haired boy called Anders, who wore a neck brace, and a frail black kid named Leon, carrying a stack of books and looking utterly lost.
In the slow movement of "Winter," here renamed "Khana," Farhad Safari, a 12-year-old red-haired boy, playing ghichak, a bowed instrument, won your heart (and earned bravos at the end) with his tender rendering of the ruminative solo theme.
EVEN as a small, red-haired boy with poor vision, Virgil Starkwell, the hero of Woody Allen's "Take the Money and Run," is betrayed by fate and by the fact that although he is aggressive he also is a schlemiel.
"This is my first memory of Henry," says Begley's narrator, Sam Standish, in the opening sentences of "Matters of Honor," summoning up the image of a "red-haired boy" leaning out a dormitory window, waving to a beautiful girl wearing bright red lipstick.
Mr. Brown so irritated Edward Crutchfield Jr., the former chief executive of the First Union Corporation -- he once said Mr. Crutchfield "never saw an acquisition proposal he didn't like" -- that Mr. Crutchfield dismissed the freckle-faced Mr. Brown as "that little red-haired boy".
