July 1983 Cover

ON THE COVER: Cover Illustration by Stephen Pietzsch

July 1983

Table of Contents

Features

The old tin tray, it ain’t what it used to be. Today’s TV dinner have become “frozen cuisine.”

Jack Young was the eighties’ oil boom in the flesh. Unfortunately, he also personifies the aftermath of the bust.

The quintessential wildcatter fills you in on free enterprise, A-rabs, and Texas after oil.

Don’t give up! There’s still money to be made finding oil. Up in Graham the Creswells are striking it rich with the help of Jesus and, er, creekology.

Ed Jones rode the oil boom to a white-collar job. It was a short trip.

We just rate them. You voted for them.

These days it seems every five-acre ranchette flaunts a gate worthy of the XIT.

Columns

The tardy teachers.

Movies

Return of the Jedi is a star shower of new creatures and old favorites that leaves you wowed but underwhelmed. Breathless is suffocating. WarGanes starts out with a bang and ends with a whimper. Flashdance has a certain twinkle.

Jazz

The music of tenor saxman John Handy is rooted in Texas and the blues, and he uses his distinctive sound to lure more listeners to jazz.

Classical Music

This spring both of Texas’ top symphonies staged the late William Walton’s Belshazzar’s Fest. Dallas held back, but Houston made merry with the splashy biblical spectacle.

Art

Photographer Carlotta Corpron moved to Denton in 1935, and the burst of avant-garde work she produced is, so far, unsurpassed in Texas.

Books

An Abilene man recalls the pluck and pain of his stricken son in This Is the Child. An El Paso professor creates a lovably uncool detective in Dancing Bear. An Austin meteorologist blows hot on Texas Weather.

Reporter

Reporter

Saving the Fort Worth Stockyards; remembering the Hondo Hurrican; suing for peanuts’ rotting your brain on MTV.

Miscellany

Behind bars.

Go with the flow; made in the shade.

Seeing spots.

Briscoe’s beef; new wave health care; a bright idea for Houston Lighting & Power; the case of the lagging law school.

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