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August 1982

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Now it’s their turn to cry.

It symbolizes either the American dream or the American nightmare—one or the other of which is enveloping Texas.

In Dumas—and all over the state—Mexican Americans are leaving old ways behind and taking to Protestantism, capitalism, and disco.

He’s Arthur Temple, Jr., ruler of a million acres of East Texas and the last of the timber barons.

The real lowdown on the Lone Star State.

Pack up the kids, hitch up the boat, and don’t forget the suntan oil. Texas lakes are the place to be this summer.

Columns

Art

Photographer George Krause draws the viewer into a twilight world where jocks, saints, and nudes seem almost mystical.

The good book.

Movies

Everybody’s favorite starshippers battle a bad guy and the bulge in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Author! Author! is nothing to write home about. The Thing is barely human. And there’s The World According to Garp, Firefox, and Blade Runner.

Architecture

They haven’t designed any Parthenons or Colosseums yet, but architects like Robert Venturi and Michael Graves are bringing a touch of ancient Greece and Rome to Texas.

Classical Music

Houston Grand Opera dedicated a lot of its budget and all of its heart to producing not an opera but an American musical—Show Boat.

Church

A host of Pentecostals gathered in Dallas to hug, kiss, sing, babble, and get the chewing-out of their lives.

Reporter

Reporter

Austin’s Bourbon Street; San Antonio’s food fight; the governor’s mystery museum; Green Lizards in Concan; truffles in paradise.

Miscellany

Heads-up journalism; expensive mileage; the balkanization of the Sunbelt; wars in the oil patch.

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