June 1985
Table of Contents
Features
Last One InWhen the summer heat starts to get to you, cool your heels by plunging into an icy green swimming hole. On the Wings of the WindSomeday, when the weather is just right, glider pilot Joann Shaw will sail across the sky, alone among the silent and shifting clouds, for hundreds of miles. The Last TarponMy quest for this magnificent silver fish drew me to a lonely stretch of the Texas coast night and day, summer and fall, over and over again. La Reina DianaBy her dedication, her rigor, her almost overwhelming enthusiasm, Diana Kennedy forced a generation of cooks to take Mexican food seriously and jolted Texans into realizing that there is life beyond the combination dinner. The Desperate Search for Christi MeeksWhen five-year-old Christi Meeks disappeared and the police couldn’t find her, her father turned to Bill Dear, one of the most controversial private detectives in Texas. |
CowgirlsUp-to-date Western fashions that’ll knock your boots off. The Texas Six-PackThe six freshman Republican congressmen from Texas are young, angry, and energetic. The only question is, can they be effective too? Western Art: Armchair CowboyAn interpretation of a classic genre. Texas Primer: The Hi SignThe laid-back Texas way of saying howdy on the road. |
Columns
Behind the LinesThe testing of a test. BooksGoing Whole HogLarry McMurtry’s grand epic, Lonesome Dove, opens with blue snake-eating pigs and goes on to describe unflinchingly the settlement of the American West. Mark Singer’s Funny Money examines the biggest bank failure in U.S. history. JazzJust One of Those ThingsJazz singers defy definition. They may scat, or they may not; they may be veterans or newcomers; they may decline the label of jazz singer. But their music always gives them away. |
MoviesAching HollowsHeartbreakers has a drowsy punch, but it still stings; 1918 deposits us in nostalgia; My First Wife is all psychodrama, no wit; Sylvia is refined, reserved—and despairing. RadioMornin’, Mr. SmithermanEvery day the citizens of Cameron rise and shine to the radio antics of Eugene “Unk” Smitherman and his creation, a lovable rube named Silas Strausberger. |
Reporter
ReporterTexas Monthly ReporterAustin’s infamous Iguana; Lucas’ latest story; San Antonio’s dedicated Dodgers; Tascosa’s secretive spirits. |
Miscellany
Roar of the CrowdTopping it off; pickin’ on T. Boone; traveling the byways; finding relief. State SecretsCan Ross Perot get the Indians to sell out Manhattan again? Why Kent Hance may not run; roll out the pork barrel; shoot down that trial balloon. |
ToutsAids de camp. PuzzleWhen in Rome… |
