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November 1983

Table of Contents

Features

Twenty years ago he thrust himself into our lives; he is there yet.

A great man was dead and an outraged world desperately wanted someplace to lay blame. It chose Dallas and changed the city forever.

Assassination buffs come in all shapes and convictions—archivists, technologists, mob-hit theorists, and more—but they are all obsessed with Lee Harvey Oswald, and his crime is the focus of their lives.

Quick! Get out your furs before it gets hot again.

It’s a high-rise developer’s dream. Houston’s old guard wants to turn 34 acres of downtown warehouses into an island of classy shops and pricey condos. They thought they had it wired, until Kathy Whitmire was elected mayor.

Texas: land of contrast. That’s why we have double-barreled businesses like a feedstore cum twirling school or a combo junkyard-wildlife preserve.

Good, clean sex, brought to you by high-kicking, rosy-cheeked Texas gals.

Columns

Dueling cornucopias.

Politics

Crosbytown and Texas Tech wanted to harvest a major local resource: the sun. But then the feds stepped in, and the issue switched from energy to power.

Art

Robert Frank took casual but expressive snapshots that captured dramas of American life and altered the course of modern photography.

Books

In The Desert Rose Larry McMurtry’s heroines never blossom into believable women. The Franchise is a tough tale about graft and the gridiron.

Texana

Here’s to the unsung heroes of Eastland: my grandfather and his V.C. menu.

Theater

With The Palace of Amateurs, the Plaza Theatre brought a sparkling Mariel Hemingway to Dallas and a lofty new theatrical standard to Texas.

Classical Music

Houston likes to think it discovered Erie Mills, but it’s willing to share the winning young star with the rest of the opera world.

Movies

Nick Nolte is a journalist dodging bullets and political involvement in Under Fire. The Right Stuff is about Americans, space, and manifest destiny. The Big Chill is a warm look at the cooling of sixties idealism.

Reporter

Reporter

A new era for Texas prisons; a new view of Wichita Falls; a new look, alas, for a Dallas street; a new metropolis in East Texas; a new generation of frat rats.

Miscellany

The Supreme Court scores one for Texas against the Yankees; blame the recession on InterFirst; why Phil Gramm makes a great Republican; an oil squabble matches the greedy little independents against poor, starving Big Oil.

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