September 1986 Cover

ON THE COVER: Photograph by Reagan Bradshaw

September 1986

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Features

The Chihuahuan Desert is a place of extremes, where the visitor not only observes but participates in the struggle for life and death.

The most important new addition to the Dallas Cowboys is a veteran from the team’s early years computer genius Salam Qureishi.

The state fair’s Comet: will it rust in space?

Houston is famous for medical cures. But when British rock star Ronnie Lane came to town with a crippling disease and $1 million for research, all he got was crippling legal problems.

She unmasked the Klan and worried about the role of women, but she listened more to her husband than to the suffragettes.

An enticing portfolio of what makes Houston Houston.

Mix election time, South Texas, and barbeque, and you get the pachanga circuit, where politics and barbeque are served with equal reverence.

Columns

Business

A new class of self-styled experts called prosperity consultants say they have the solution to Texas’ economic bust: the bad times are all in our heads.

Texana

A Dallasite enamored of British class gets her sesquicentennial wish—a Texas embassy in London.

Movies

Revenge has seldom been so incendiary, but Heartburn fails to ignite; Blue Velvet is for the brave; Club Paradise is for the jolly.

Jazz

What’s remarkable about this exclusive jazz party isn’t just that it’s in Midland. The biggest surprise comes when the music starts.

Reporter

Reporter

Fashion shifts at Farah; Dave Pelz’s putter problems; will the Dallas establishment’s mayoral candidate please stand up?

Miscellany

From goggle that let you see in the dark to voice changers that you sound like Daffy Duck, the Counter Spy Store is stocked for the age of paranoia.

Two gleaming office towers are going up face to face in downtown Austin. Now their marketing managers have to rent the town asunder.

Bail bonding is one Texas business that’s recession proof.

Checking in with Corpus’ famous insurance writer; smelling celebrity flowers with Leonard Tharp; sharing some Jello-O with Dionne Warwick

Are the Elissa’s sails trimmed for good? The Chronicle finds a possible buyer close to home—very close; mashing the mass transit tax.

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