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January 1982

Table of Contents

Features

In which we salute the folks who made Texas the bizarre, flagrant, preposterous, funny, and endearing place it was last year.

Rusty Hardin is a prosecutor. Most of the time, his job is to put people in jail. This time, he wants a man dead.

Supplicants in the Valley worship at the shrine of faith healer Don Pedrito Jaramillo, more powerful than he was in life.

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.

Some things never change.

Columns

The perfect city.

Politics

Time was when Texas Republicans had to stand united. But now their party's in power and there's rivalry in the ranks.

Art

An 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 Music

Bach and Haydn, Mozart and Schubert, Wagner and Weill, all put in appearances on last year’s top-notch classical albums.

Church

Potlicking in Houston churches is nothing new for a lot of black Baptist preachers. It just comes with the territory.

Movies

Screen 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.

Reporter

Reporter

Football fever in Wink; political prognostication in Houston; gustatory grotesquerie in Austin; building bonanza in Fort Worth.

Miscellany

Hearing the call of the Word, the wild, and the hogs.

Poor Bunker Hunt; hogging the airwaves; why the establishment likes Hightower; worries in the Hobby camp.

Between a rock and an art place.

Rolling stock.

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