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State Secrets

How will Christo wrap up his trip to Texas?; pooh-poohing Three mile Island; the greatest train robbery of all; shake-up at Houston’s city hall.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

South Padre defiled—and you were there; the joy of six hundred maniacal flute players; Dallas’ love-hate affair with Fair Park.

After the Fall

Nicaragua’s new junta may discover it’s easier to depose a dictator than to rebuild a ravaged country.

The Inside Story

Keep those cards and letters coming in.

This Is The Way The Apocalypse Ends . . .

Coppola’s multimillion-dollar labor of love is finally finished. We think.

Cutups

Can’t hull a strawberry? Can’t boil an egg? Can’t wash leafy vegetables? Relax. Help is on the way.

Sherwood Blount’s First Million

He believed in the American dream and it paid off.

Ghosts

World War II may be over, but the Confederate Air Force will rise again.

It’s a Lulu!

Even incomplete, Lulu was a great opera. Now it’s finished, and Santa Fe Opera got the stage the coveted U.S. premiere.

City Transit Gloria

Hymns and admonitions for the best and worse bus services in Texas.

A Joyful Noise

At St. Patrick’s in San Antonio they sing and dance—during mass. At Lakewood Assembly of God in Dallas they sing and sing and sing . . .

Behind the Lines

Give me land, lots of land . . .

The Right Wings

In his new book Tom Wolfe poses this question: were the Mercury astronauts men or monkeys? Thomas Thompson changes his journalistic setting from Houston to the far East to produce a book about an astonishing criminal.

Football Heroes

The best part of Texas high school football is that it’s the biggest thing in town—and still only a game.

Honey, You’re Still Driving Me Crazy

Wise up: that insipid supermarket sugar-water you’ve been putting on your toast isn’t honey. The real stuff—Texas honey—is as full-bodied and distinctive as the nectars that go into it.

Easy Money

Faster than a speeding Master Charge, funkier than a garage sale, able to leap bad credit ratings at a single bound. Look, up at the sign! It’s a bank! It’s a store! It’s—Super Pawn!

The Promised Land

Work is tarring rooftops in the scorching Texas heat, home is a falling-down shanty visited by rats and roaches, supper is boiled potatoes and tortillas. It's the good life for two illegal Mexican immigrants trying to make it in America.

Touts

To bid or not to bid; aye, there’s the rub.

The Beautiful and the Damned

Town and Country magazine came to Texas to record our sophistication, wealth, and savoir faire—and all hell broke loose.

State Secrets

Not-so-little leaguer finds fountain of youth; schools have to test and tell whether Johnny can’t read; Houston’s new shingle ordinance tries to lock the barn door.

Hooping It Up

Pickup basketball is not a pastime for the lily-livered or the lackadaisical.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

B-a-a-d government meddling irks Texas goat and sheep raisers; something’s rotten in Rotterdam, and it’s driving up oil prices; and the world’s best gymnasts are coming to Cowtown.

Dust Off Your Blue Suede Shoes

Then grab your platters and step into the golden era of rock ën’ roll.

Up the Creek

Everyone in Austin loves sparkling Barton Creek—especially the developers.

Requiem for a Heavyweight

Charles Mingus was a great jazz musician with a sharp mind, an impeccable sense of rhythm, and a mighty powerful fist.

The Inside Story

Photo jock; teacher’s pest.

The Truth Hurts

North Dallas Forty scores but misses the extra point, Dracula bites off more than it can chew, and Peppermint Soda recalls with accuracy the bittersweet days of adolescence.

Unfancy Dancer

Some have said that life is a dance, and Deborah Hay makes you believe it.

Hearts and Minds

Welcome to Dallas’ first Baptist, the largest Baptist church in the world, with a pastor and a service to match; a more modest path to religious enlightenment leads you to Houston’s Emerson Unitarian.

Behind the Lines

Waltzing across Texas.

Mexican Mystery Tour

Charles Portis’ new novel belongs to the tradition of great frontier yarns, but this time the young man goes south.

Another Roadside Attraction

Houston National Bank’s ìLarger Canvas Twoî takes it to the streets.

Say, Have You Heard the One About Cactus Pryor?

Don’t look now, but the rather odd gentleman with the suspicious accent and outlandish military getup may not be exactly what he seems.

Down to the Sea in Buses

Grab your beach towel and bathing suit, but leave your car in the garage.

Ten Giant Steps to Disaster

How did we get into this sorry energy mess? By making sorry decisions.

I Solve the Energy Crisis

Or, how we can all stop worrying and learn to love the crunch.

Touts

Stars and stripes forever.

The Zest is History

Texas, our Texas, all hail the mighty state-audiences applaud history plays in Galveston and Palo Duro Canyon.

Next on Dallas: J. R. at the Ball

Dallas is both a television show and a city, but at the Cattle Baron’s Ball you couldn’t tell which was which.

State Secrets

Crying over spilt oil, greedy doctors, and disappearing millionaires.

Pennant Fever

At midseason, long-suffering Astros and Rangers fans were having visions of grandeur. We hope they weren’t delusions.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

Valley politicos block minority TV; Dairy Queens reign in small-town Texas; woman diver yearns for Acapulco cliffs; Houston takes its lumps.

Let My People Pray

Were the words of Russian exile Georgi Vins heard over the din of the Southern Baptist Convention?

Puzzle

The Inside Story

A cabal of eighteen.

I Left My Guard in San Francisco

Clint Eastwood makes a break from Alcatraz; Barbra Streisand makes another silly movie; John Wayne is remembered as a consummate actor.

Smiling Through it All

When gasoline is scarce, it’s not the end of the world.