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Mass Army-Navy's best-seller is the Royal Stuart boxer, sported at one time by Scotland's royal Stuart family. (The tartan plaid, that is, not the boxers...

Author: By Geoffrey J. Hoffman, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Bargain Hunting's Knight Errant | 1/13/1993 | See Source »

...question of how to refresh opera's inherited visual cliches occupies every thinking director these days, especially when the genre is as terminal as bel canto: a collection of pretty tunes hung on the dusty skeleton of a story. Zambello's solution may be vilified in tartan-loving, canary-fancying quarters: unlike traditional stagings of Lucia, this one includes no kilts, no Scotsmen, no mountain greenery of any kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mad, Bad and Dangerous | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

...Tartan News at Carnegie-Mellon Universityjust received the first ad, according to ArtEditor Daniel R. Frey. "It was cause for a lot ofdebate [but]...we're not running it," he said."We're running an article about in instead...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: College Newspapers Debate Holocaust Ad | 4/16/1992 | See Source »

...Libya, Horwitz finds a designer dictator dressed in a cape, tartan sweater and red wool hat. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is also given to mismatched profundities, like "Woman is a female and man is a male" and "Democracy means popular rule, not popular expression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Spots: BAGHDAD WITHOUT A MAP by Tony Horwitz | 2/25/1991 | See Source »

There was ground fog the morning they carried the body up the mountain, following a bagpiper in Erskine tartan and Tibetans blowing horns as long as young pines and scarlet-berobed monks, to a meadow quilted with dandelions and buttercups and 3,000 or so of the American middle class, their babies in Kreeger & Son slings on their backs. Behind the corpse, which was borne in a wood-frame box wrapped in silk, came visiting lamas, borne in big cars, or lamasines, as one wag had it. "Our understanding," one after another in the crowd said, and happily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Vermont: A Spiritual Leader's Farewell | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

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