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January 1979 features This is Woodrow Wilson: A School That Works Clements for President 1979 Bum Steer Awards » In Search of La Salle Six Crises columns Behind the Lines The Joy of Six [Sports] Coup de Foie Gras [Dining In] A Chance of Face [Lifestyle] You Talk Too Much [Film] Power to the Little People [Theater] Conductor Dating [Classical Music] Starring Rowles [Jazz] The Emperor’s Old Clothes [Art] reporter Texas Monthly Reporter [Reporter] miscellany The Inside Story Roar of the Crowd Touts State Secrets
February 1979 features Billy Lee » Hotel Detective Requiem for a Margarita » Only the Strong Survive » columns Behind the Lines The Seep of Death [Politics] Through All Kinds of Weather [Country Notes] Rebel with a Cause [Politics] The Long Brawl [Film] No Means for the End [Theater] Out with a Bang [Classical Music] Gather Ye Records While Ye May [Popular Music] Ben’s Ballet [Dance] Just Whistlin’ Dixie [Books] reporter Texas Monthly Reporter [Reporter] miscellany The Inside Story Roar of the Crowd Touts State Secrets food The Best Little Margarita In Texas »
March 1979 features Sisters Hey Kid, Shape Up Psst . . . Have I Got a Deal for You! The Texan and His Gun Have Guns, Will Travel columns A Tale of Two Coasts [Travel] Behind the Lines You’ve Come a Long Way, Biscuits [Dining In] Heavenly Hosts [Business] The Ice Cometh, Man [Cityview] Ready, Aim...Click [Film] Golden Oldies [Art] See No Evil [Theater] Who Needs Jones Hall? [Classical Music] Climbing Rocky Hill [Popular Music] Barthelme the Scribbler [Books] reporter Texas Monthly Reporter [Reporter] miscellany The Inside Story Roar of the Crowd Touts Puzzle State Secrets
April 1979 features Fiesta! The Hot Pink Empire of Mary Kay Ash Super Medicine » Are Psychiatrists Really Crazy? What They Do All Day columns Behind the Lines The Firing Line [Politics] If You Knew Sushi [Dining Out] Sold American [Business] Lonesome Cowboys [Film] Artichoke Season [Theater] The Dark at the End of the Tunnel [Art] Pitched on Bach [Classical Music] Taking It to the Limits [Popular Music] reporter Texas Monthly Reporter [Reporter] miscellany The Inside Story Roar of the Crowd Touts Puzzle State Secrets
May 1979 features Never Love a Bandido Running Wild with Jerry Jeff Making It I’m Afraid, You’re Afraid How Cullen Davis Beat the Rap columns Behind the Lines Cooks Tour de Force [Lifestyle] Persecution Complex? [Religion] All That Litters [Country Notes] Adults Only [Film] This Little Play Goes to Market [Theater] A Fright At The Opera [Classical Music] Say Uncle [Popular Music] The Vienna Goods [Art] Teachers’ Threat [Books] In the Beginning [Church] reporter Texas Monthly Reporter [Reporter] miscellany The Inside Story Roar of the Crowd Touts Puzzle State Secrets
June 1979 features Night Moves I Hate You! Clowning Around Ben Barnes is Still Running » Hell on Wheels Chinks in the Armor columns Behind the Lines Soup On Ice » [Dining In] Strike! They’re Out [Sports] An Ill Wind [Cityview] A Stitch in Time » [Health] U.$.A. Film Fe$tival [Film] They Must Pay the Rent! [Theater] Boys Will be Sopranos [Classical Music] Missing the Pointe [Dance] The Camera Knows [Art] A New Old West [Books] Count Your Blessings [Church] reporter Texas Monthly Reporter [Reporter] miscellany The Inside Story Roar of the Crowd Touts Puzzle State Secrets food Gazpacho Andaluz » Gazpacho Ajo Blanco » My Gazpacho » White Wine Gazpacho »
July 1979 features Moon Struck The Ten Best and The Ten Worst Legislators » Conspicuous Consumption Speed Freak All God’s Chitlins To Each His Own Counter Culture “Hi, Mabel. Give Me the Usual.” columns Baby and Me and DDT » [Health] Behind the Lines Type Caste [Working] Haute as a Pistol [Stepping Out] The Lord is in His Temple [Church] Eagle’s Eye [Film] After the Honeymoon [Theater] Talent Clout [Classical Music] Breeden Ground [Jazz] The Collector [Art] Wind, Winter, and Waste [Books] For the Good of the Country [Popular Music] reporter Texas Monthly Reporter [Reporter] miscellany The Inside Story Roar of the Crowd Touts Puzzle State Secrets
August 1979 features The Throwdown I Solve the Energy Crisis Who to Pin It On Ten Giant Steps to Disaster Ask Jett Rink Smiling Through it All Paradise Lost Down to the Sea in Buses Say, Have You Heard the One About Cactus Pryor? columns Behind the Lines Next on Dallas: J. R. at the Ball [Stepping Out] Let My People Pray [Religion] Pennant Fever [Sports] I Left My Guard in San Francisco [Film] The Zest is History [Theater] Who Needs Nelson Eddy? [Classical Music] The Resurrection of Patrick Henry Bruce [Art] Sausage and Salvation [Church] reporter Texas Monthly Reporter » [Reporter] miscellany The Inside Story Roar of the Crowd Touts Puzzle State Secrets
September 1979 features The Promised Land Easy Money Honey, You’re Still Driving Me Crazy Why Teachers Can’t Teach » Football Heroes columns The Beautiful and the Damned [Stepping Out] Behind the Lines Hooping It Up [Sports] Up the Creek » [Politics] Hearts and Minds [Church] The Truth Hurts [Film] Dust Off Your Blue Suede Shoes [Popular Music] Requiem for a Heavyweight [Jazz] Unfancy Dancer [Dance] Mexican Mystery Tour [Books] Another Roadside Attraction [Art] reporter Texas Monthly Reporter [Reporter] miscellany The Inside Story Roar of the Crowd Touts State Secrets
October 1979 features The Harder They Fall A Delicate Balance Ghosts The Man Who Built River Oaks Sherwood Blount’s First Million » Talking Money/The Heavy Hitters Cutups columns Behind the Lines City Transit Gloria [Cityview] Titles Texans [Stepping Out] After the Fall [Politics] A Joyful Noise [Church] Mission Possible [Art] This Is The Way The Apocalypse Ends . . . [Film] The Spoils of War [Theater] Popular Music » It’s a Lulu! [Classical Music] The Right Wings [Books] reporter Texas Monthly Reporter [Reporter] miscellany The Inside Story Roar of the Crowd Touts State Secrets
November 1979 features Funky Hotels Trial by Water The Truth about John Connally » The New Apartment Slums The Radner Papers Grand Indulgences columns Behind the Lines East Meets Wet [Stepping Out] Kindred Spirits [Country Notes] Breaking the Sound Barrier » [Health] Onward Christian Soldiers [Church] Over There [Film] Three’s Company [Theater] The Little Red Warehouse [Architecture] Semiconductors [Classical Music] Big D, Big Red, and the Big Apple [Jazz] reporter Texas Monthly Reporter [Reporter] miscellany The Inside Story Roar of the Crowd Touts State Secrets
December 1979 features Tiny Texas The Best Little Hotels in Mexico Picking up the Pieces Smokers Are People Too The Real Mean Green My Life and Hard Times in the Junior League columns Looking on the Bright side [Energy] Behind the Lines The Ultimate Croissant [Dining Out] Zandra and the Laughing Elk [Stepping Out] The Long Nights of Preston Jones [Theater] Go-Getters and Holders-On [Church] The Vampire Killer [Film] Why the Alley? [Theater] The Big Loser [Classical Music] Tune into the Eighties [Popular Music] The Thin Man [Art] Memoir of the Soil [Books] reporter Texas Monthly Reporter [Reporter] miscellany The Inside Story Roar of the Crowd State Secrets Touts