January 1982
January 1982
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Features
Bum Steer AwardsIn which we salute the folks who made Texas the bizarre, flagrant, preposterous, funny, and endearing place it was last year. The Lord’s WorkRusty Hardin is a prosecutor. Most of the time, his job is to put people in jail. This time, he wants a man dead. |
The Saint of FalfurriasSupplicants in the Valley worship at the shrine of faith healer Don Pedrito Jaramillo, more powerful than he was in life. Trust Me, Just Sign Here.Whenever you buy or sell a house, hundreds of dollars of your money goes for something called title insurance. Title insurance is a great deal—for the title company. Dear Parents of Dallas: Your Teenagers Are Out Hot-Rodding, Drinking Beer, and Flirting on Forest Lane Every Friday Night!Some things never change. |
Columns
PoliticsThe Party's OverTime was when Texas Republicans had to stand united. But now their party's in power and there's rivalry in the ranks. Behind the LinesThe perfect city. MoviesBig Frogs, Small PondScreen greats Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn embarrass themsevles in the namby-pamby On Golden Pond. Ragtime is a clinker. Absence of Malice has prescence--Paul Newman's. |
ChurchStumpers in the PulpitPotlicking in Houston churches is nothing new for a lot of black Baptist preachers. It just comes with the territory. ArtMiss Van Buren Comes To TexasAn evocative American portrait is one of 75 masterpieces from the Phillips Collection now on display in Dallas. A photographic exhibit in Austin on family life covered just about everything but the family. Classical MusicThe Best Classical Records of 1981Bach and Haydn, Mozart and Schubert, Wagner and Weill, all put in appearances on last year’s top-notch classical albums. |
Reporter
ReporterTexas Monthly ReporterFootball fever in Wink; political prognostication in Houston; gustatory grotesquerie in Austin; building bonanza in Fort Worth. |
Miscellaneous
Roar of the CrowdHearing the call of the Word, the wild, and the hogs. ToutsBetween a rock and an art place. |
PuzzleRolling stock. State SecretsPoor Bunker Hunt; hogging the airwaves; why the establishment likes Hightower; worries in the Hobby camp. |
D's use the spectre of Karl Rove to raise money (Tue Jul 1 at 12:20 AM)
Oh Big Brother, Where Art Thou (Fri Jul 4 at 9:30 AM)
Clay Felker (Tue Jul 1 at 11:15 AM)
Madam, I'm Adam (Sun Jun 22 at 4:34 PM)
Eating Vancouver (Mon Jun 30 at 10:04 PM)
