January 1981 Cover

January 1981

Table of Contents

Features

An ample account of the absurdities, affronts, asininities, atrocities, abominations, and anacoluthons that assaulted Texans in 1980.

That’s what the Legislature is here to do, and unless we’re lucky, it just may.

Clements is ready for the Legislature, but is the Legislature ready for him?

When buyers and sellers converge on Dallas’s Apparel Mart for a week-long orgy of fashionable commerce, high style and discriminating taste confront the cold reality of the bottom line.

Columns

East is East, West is West, and in Texas the twain shall never meet.

Film

Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull is full of fancy footwork, but it doesn’t land many solid hits. Jack Lemmon deserves Tribute; The Competition is a winning film.

Books

Texas writers of historical romances spice up the old boy- meets-girl plot with more than a pinch of passion.

Education

The Texas education Agency’s recent report on teacher competency doesn’t make the grade.

Dining Out

Alan’s Texas Cafe in Austin is good eats with Alan; Don’s in Houston has Cajun food worth ragin’ about.

Theater

Lighting a stage for an operatic performance isn’t just a matter of flipping a switch.

Church

You’ll really groove on the teachings of the Today Church in Dallas; tiny Keene is a town for Seventy-day Adventists-all week long.

Stepping Out

Diane von Furstenberg is a one-woman event, from her DVF glasses to her purple lizard pumps.

Reporter

Reporter

Rounding up rustlers in North Texas; shaping up mind and body at the Houstonian; chalking up a victory against infant deaths in the Valley.

Miscellany

Trusty scouts, perilous potholes, French fancies.

Dress code.

Discount medicine needles doctors; open season on Democrats; meanwhile, back at Southfork; Dallas blacks are fed up—with busing.

Burgers, bargains, and bovines.

You are what you eat, fatty.

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