COVER CREDIT: Tom Ballenger
July 1978
Table of Contents
Features
On the WaterfrontYou Can See By My Outfit That I am a CowboyIf you get an outfit you can be a cowboy too. |
Brave New VacanciesGive us your tired and freezing Yankees, tour studious Arabs, tour ambitious young hustlers just blown into town, and we will rent them one bedroom and a bath for $215. The Last SisterModern nuns have left the convent and entered the world. If they don’t like what they find, can they go home again? |
Columns
Behind the LinesThe uselessness of college. LifestyleJust Baby and MeA mother’s job offers no vacations, no holidays, and lousy pay, but it’s a noble profession. Country NotesBuilding FeverIt’s a chicken coop. I built it myself. DealingAsset HoundWhen rusty Rose talks, people with money listen. Dining InTots and PansSo your kids struck out in baseball, tripped up in tap, and camp won’t take them back this summer? Try teaching them to cook. Bombs Away Egg Drop SoupPeanut Butter A Six-Year-Old Can MakeC-3PO’s ColeslawHomemade Mayonnaise Mastered at TenSteamed Carrots with Lemon Butter SauceFrench Vanilla Ice Cream |
TheaterA Little Spring MadnessMaybe There’s no cure for insanity, but two new plays offer some provocative treatments. Classical MusicThe Seven-Year HitchConducting the Houston Symphony, Lawrence Foster inspired respect. He didn’t know he needed love too. Popular MusicFiddler on the LooseBack in the forties Gatemouth Brown took Texas blues uptown,. Now he’s taking C&W to New Orleans. DanceHullabaloo In RagtimeMix together Scott Joplin, modern history, and the Prodigal Son and what do you get? A mess of pottage. ArtRhythm ‘N’ HuesRiding a color merry-go-round with America’s first modern painters. |
Reporter
ReporterTexas Monthly ReporterPsychiatrists send men to death row; Texas’ loop coasters give up-side-down joyride; Diablos play baseball with Kleenex and kazoos. |
Miscellany
The Inside StoryHorsefeathers and other plumage. Roar of the CrowdThe rich and the powerless. |
ToutsFrock and roll. ContestSound waves. |
Recipes
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