ON THE COVER: Cover photography by Jeremy Green/Kirkley Photography, Inc.
February 1980
Table of Contents
Features
The Crack-UpYou learn one clear and not so very grim lesson by looking death in the face. The Joy of KissingThe art of romantic osculation barely survived the jaded seventies. Now it’s time to rediscover the private delights and civic benefits of real kissing. Straight From the HeartA luscious array of seductive trinkets for wooing your special Valentine. I Found Romance at the Bijou TheatreWe don’t know how you learned about the birds and the bees, but we’ll bet you learned about love the same way we did: from the movies. |
True LoveActual photos! In living color! Incontrovertible evidence that kissing is fun! Down in the DepthsThe intricate underwater passages and pristine water of Jacob’s Well fascinate drivers. Too often, the fascination proves fatal. Rock ‘N’ Roll’s Wizard of OzHow Gordon McLendon stormed Texas with Top 40... da doo ron ron. |
Columns
Behind the LinesWhy Houston has the best schools in the state. Stepping OutFlipping OutWhen big-time gymnastics came to Fort Worth, half the contestants were steely-eyed little girls with the bodies of children and the wills of fanatics. LifestyleChamber MusicPotty training doesn’t have to be the great bugaboo of raising children. ChurchLord, Won’t You Buy Me Some Time on TV?Preachers Robert Schuller and Rex Humbard have zeroed in on the modern way to reach a congregation: electronically. |
FilmDanger: Low VoltageThe Electric Horseman got its wires crossed. Kramer vs. Kramer is an above-average film taken from a below-average novel. TheaterLittle StarsModest theaters in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston deliver powerful histrionics. Dallas Theater Center produces three original plays - but original, alas, does not necessarily mean good. Classical MusicThe Foreign LegionDallas Civic Opera is a grand old lady who knows her European opera. But sometimes she gets a little senile. ArtRamblin’ RoseEminent art critic Barbara Rose has assembled an exhibit of paintings of the eighties. Oh, yeah? Where did she get them? |
Reporter
ReporterTexas Monthly ReporterOld what’s-his-name is the most powerful man in Texas; Simone Beck takes her culinary magic show on the road; duck hunters and conservationists battle over a marsh. |
Miscellany
The Inside StoryLove in Bloom. Roar of the CrowdOnward through the smoke, upward through defeat, backward through time. ToutsFortunes, falcons, and folderol. |
PuzzleName that cartoon. State SecretsMarlin sidetracks the Missouri-Pacific; school boards wrangle over the handicapped; two Texas Sports magazines slug it out. |
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