1980 – Page 2 of 5

The Fire Next Time

Firehouse fuming, bullring bawling, onion fields calling.

The Second Wave

Where have all the boat people gone?; money makes UT go round; Dallas blacks lambaste the co ps; Texas lowriders get down.

Show Stoppers

Jumpin’ Joe Flash

Joe “King” Carrasco and the Crowns rock New Wave with a Tex-Mex rhythm.

Ghost Writhers in the Sky

Prince Albert

Although Don Albert’s music was a mainstay of the forties, his obstinate stand against racism put him years ahead of his time.

Lady on the Lam

Dirty Money

The ingredients: a criminal with soiled cash, an ambitious banker, a savvy go-between. The result: an almighty mess for Houston’s Allied Bank.

A Fan’s Notes

Arnold Shoenberg is the century’s most maligned composer, but to know him is to love him.

He Found it!

Behind the Lines

The present against the past: what the New World can learn from the Old, and vice versa.

Measure For Measure

Three Texas poets word their way into print; two new novels trace the adventures of Neanderthals and knights-errant.

Man-child

Leon Box is a retarded artist whose work underscores the beauty and absurdity of a world he has seen very little of.

The $38,000 a Year, Wife and Two Kids, House and a Pool Blues

Is inflation deflating your standard of living? You are not alone.

The Modified Triple-Reverse, Double-Handoff Option

Football has degenerated into a routine encounter between two sets of programmed, steroid-stuffed robots. These trick plays could change all that.

In the Still of the Night

A photographer finds mystery and magic.

Touts

Eat, eat, it’s good for you.

Shock Tactics

Houston’s Equinox Theatre has fine actors and directors, but its raunchy sex and violence can make you squirm. The nineteenth-century Granbury Opera House is a fetching setting for Texas Meg.

Shock Tactics

Houston’s Equinox Theatre has fine actors and directors, but its raunchy sex and violence can make you squirm. The nineteenth-century Granbury Opera House is a fetching setting for Texas Meg.

State Secrets

Texas chic hits bottom; bak error pinches UT law school; carter alienates Texas again; a test for teachers.

Roar of the Crowd

Bettered bests, cultural quests, manhood tests.

Texas Monthly Reporter

A black Houstonian revised the Horatio Alger legend; making a racket in Mason; UT astronomers yearn to conquer the universe; requiem for a reef.

Puzzle

Look! Up In the sky!

The Inside Story

Help!

The Inheritance Factor

In Austin, experts in genetics are helping parents of children with birth defects come to terms with the most painful questions of their lives.

Lights, Camera—Willie!

Willie Nelson tries on a starring role and comes out smelling like a Honeysuckle Rose; in Willie an Phil Paul Mazursky pays homage to Truffaut, although he shortchanges himself.

Fit To Be Thai’d

Go east, young Westerners, for the oddest, spiciest food in Dallas; Houston’s Cho is chic, but its kitchen is all shook up.

The Heat Treatment

This one has been a humdinger, but every Texas summer is broiling hot—and that’s nothing to get all steamed up about.

Onward, Brother Roloff

The feisty pastor of the People’s Baptist Church keeps marching on to war with the State of Texas. Mexican American Pentecostals in the Valley ask Houston’s God’s help on a hot problem.

Behind the Lines

On the Move.

Capote Changes Coler

In Music for Chameleons it’s hard to tell whether Truman Capote is telling the whole truth or nothing at all of the truth; Conspiracy ferrets out much of the truth about John F. Kennedy’s murder.

Fire!

What you don’t know about your fire department could burn you up.

The Secret Life of the Beach

Along the silent, lovely beach, tiny armies fight in the tide, fierce battles rage in the sky, and nocturnal marauders slither across the sand.

Ring of Truth

Two brave bulls stood between Paco Olivera and the prize he had worked for all his life.

Touts

Stringing in the rain.

The Conqueror Worm

All the beautiful kickers gathered in Houston for the premiere of Urban Cowboy. It began at a shopping center and ended in a honk-tonk, and John Travolta had to say he liked it.

State Secrets

Summer in the city; publisher’s power play; biting the handout that feeds you; will Oscar Wyatt abandon America?

It’s Not Whether You Win

The Astros are packing ‘em in with a great new pitch—a sales pitch.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

Yankee lawyers kick up dust in the Panhandle; maniacal marathon man runs for his life; the redfish that got away; are Dallas’s tax ills contagious?

Puzzle

Type cast.

The Armadillo’s Last Waltz

The imminent demise of Austin’s famed music hall already has Texans singing the Armadillo homesick blues.

The Inside Story

In the tradition.

The War-horse

The Big Red One is Sam fuller’s war baby; roadie never gets out of its rut; The Tin Drum misses a few beats.

Lasagne and Old Lace

Try pasta and veal at Sergio’s in Dallas—that’s Italian! For an outstanding Sunday brunch, put your stock in Austin’s Green Pastures.

Bring Home the Bach

Mozart and Beethoven made an appearance, but Johann Sebastian was the guest of honor at Victoria’s annual Bach Festival.

God With the Wends

Texas’ rural Wends take time from chores to attend St. Paul’s Lutheran in Serbin; vacationers on Padre Island take time from play to attend an open-air mass at St. Andrew’s by the Sea.

Why I wish I Didn’t Have $137 Million

Those luck Arabs, with all that oil! The only problem, as a Saudi finance minister points out, is that oil is all they have.

Behind the Lines

Poor Houston.

The Crime and the Pity

Michael Mewshaw reopens the case of a boyhood friend who murdered his parents’ Rober Shattuck reexamines the story of the Wild Boy.