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January 1988 features 1988 Bum Steer Awards » The Sins of Walker Railey » Ode On a Hempstead Urn This Land Is My Land Break the Bank! Texas Primer: The Cotton Bowl » columns Behind the Lines Not What the Doctor Ordered [Education] Sweet Fifteen [Lifestyle] Chantilly Lace and A Jolly Face [Popular Music] reporter Texas Monthly Reporter [Reporter] miscellany Roar of the Crowd The National Tour of Texas State Secrets
February 1988 columns Behind the Lines An Amigo of One’s Own [Friends] God and Me [Friends] With Strings Attached » [Friends] Pages From Life [Friends] Cafe Queen [Friends] Johnson’s Boswell [Friends] “My Boy, You Must” [Friends] Habits of the Heart [Friends] A Test of Character [Community] Oh, Give Me a Home [Community] Called to Care [Community] The Promised Land [Community] The Banker’s Lament [Community] Now For the Weather [Community] Habits of the Heart [Community] My Wife’s Husband [Lovers] Shannon Loves Eric [Lovers] The Seven-Year Hitch [Lovers] Stomp On My Heart Again [Lovers] The Desperate Man [Lovers] Connubial Blast [Lovers] Habits of the Heart [Lovers] An Old Five-and-Dimer [Family] Table Manners [Family] It Had To Be You [Family] The Land That Time Remembered [Family] I Fathered a Yuppie [Family] Welcome to the Family [Family] A Living Doll [Family] Good-Bye to Robin [Family] Dean’s Beans » [Family] Flying Solo [Family] Habits of the Heart [Family] reporter miscellany Authors Then and Now You and Us
March 1988 features Lifestyles of The Rich and Bankrupt The Man Who Crushed Texaco Who Can Stop the Killer Bees? Should This Man Be President? Texas In the Blood! Saturday Night Live columns Behind the Lines Disorder in the Court [Politics] Paradise Mañana [Travel] Pleasant Under Glass [Architecture] The Soft Sell [Books] reporter Texas Monthly Reporter [Reporter] miscellany Roar of the Crowd The National Tour of Texas State Secrets
May 1988 features Dying for a Heart » A Stately House: A Photographic Portrait » Learning to Love the Bomb The Wait for Deliverance No Wonderland It Stinks Earth, Rain, Wind, Fire Don’t Even Ask! Texas Primer: Texas Guinan columns Behind the Lines Fallen Idyll [Politics] Border Bandstand [Television] Paying the Price [Education] reporter Just Add Water » [Reporter] Funky Chickens » [Reporter] miscellany Roar of the Crowd State Secrets
August 1988 features The Ants From Hell Full of Woe » Wright and Wrong The Inventive Mr. Chu The Big Squeezy Shades of Summer Texas Primer: The Dust Storm » columns Behind the Lines H-O-O-F-H-E-A-R-T-E-D [Lifestyle] Long Live the Kink [Books] Salado Days » [Texana] reporter Texas Monthly Reporter [Reporter] miscellany Roar of the Crowd State Secrets
September 1988 features A Legacy of Evil » Do I Make a Difference? I’m Right and Everyone in Texas is Wrong Air Conditioning? Who Needs It? Cars? No thanks, I’d Rather Walk Football? What’s the Big Deal? Posed for Posterity Hot Pots Off the Road Again » Texas Primer: Bush vs. Bentsen columns Behind the Lines Getting Serious [Politics] Against All Odds » [Health] Family Trees [Texana] When Words Collide [Classical Music] reporter Texas Monthly Reporter [Reporter] miscellany Roar of the Crowd State Secrets web exclusives Web Exclusive »
November 1988 features Can You Take a Hint? The War Zone Honorable Toys How Houston Beat the Bust (Sort Of) How Houston Beat the Bust: Real Estate How Houston Beat the Bust: Energy How Houston Beat the Bust: Branching Out Compadres De La Revolucion This Water Is My Water Texas Primer: The Drill-Stem Fence » columns Behind the Lines Power Play [Politics] Mojo Madness [Sports] Hasty Copy [Books] reporter Texas Monthly Reporter [Reporter] miscellany Roar of the Crowd State Secrets
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