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August 1986

Table of Contents

Features

It’s big, it’s fast, it’s powerful, it eats gas, it’s the Suburban.

Tapped by destiny, one man in Austin is forging an unlikely alliance between Texas oilmen and the friends of Israel.

In a ninety-minute reign of terror, gunshots rang out that still echo in the history of Texas.

Of fireflies and summer romance.

Dusky colors and smart shapes are the winners for fall fashion.

Thank God I’m sort of a grown-up.

Let’s hear it for Dallas’ Northwood Institute, where entrepreneurialism is second only to high society fundraising.

Its passionately loyal following may make this drink the last Texan soda pop on the planet.

Columns

Art

At the heart of this ancient culture were cruelty, self-mutilation, and ghostly visions.

Books

The characters in Prize Stories and South by Southwest often dwell on the past while living out their lives in an anxious present.

Travel

Cradled on the Brazos, this central Texas town yields its pleasures ever so grudgingly.

Popular Music

Dallas’ new late-night club scene is daring and diverse, a showcase for pioneering bands.

Movies

Legal Eagles is guilty of being humdrum and hokey; Mona Lisa has some fine, gracing touches; Vagabond finds purity within the dirtiest packaging.

Reporter

Reporter

Life after TECAT in North Forest; Joe Rinelli gives his beauties a shot at the crow; Kerrville residents have a winter’s worth of tall tales.

Miscellany

A cap for San Antonio that wouldn’t look good on Henry Cisneros; long-term pessimism hits the oil market; Texas cities finagle their way around the tax reform.

Elliott’s is the Louvre of hardware stores—it’s got flyshooters, fan blades, and three aisles of screws. In other words, it’s heaven.

Dabbling in the spot market.

Desperately seeking the Cadillac Couch; reading Carolyn Farb’s mail; cowboy cologne strikes again.

Dallas cracks the whip on weeds and litter.

UT is testing this device that works like a BB gun, only it’s a little more powerful—it’ll be able to shatter a Soviet warhead speeding through space.

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