Kushner's assistant and secretary, a painfully thin young redhead named Fiona Bierce, led Kaye through the maze of labs and down a central elevator.

Among the players trying out for the American team to the Maccabiah Games in Israel next summer, the thin redhead was not as physically impressive as others.

Garganta de Lata ("Tin Throat"): A tall, jolly, thin redhead with a typical alcoholic's nose.

The thin redhead's words burst forth.

Maureen Cooke was a redhead, tall and thin, probably in her early thirties.

For instance, Ms. Orlean, a slight, thin redhead, looks nothing like Ms. Streep (though she does look a little like any number of the redheads populating "Adaptation").

"I feel pretty self-conscious about it, to tell you the truth," said Carol Calloway, 54, a tall, thin redhead who owns a cleaning business in Dutchess County.

She is a thin, birdlike redhead, and said she began writing screenplays so she could stay at home after her first child was born.

A thin, pretty redhead, she answered crisply.