ON THE COVER: Cover illustration by Tom Curry
August 1988
Table of Contents
Features
The Ants From HellFire ants are on the relentless march across Texas, maiming, devouring, and stinging the living daylights out of everything in their path. We’ve tried to stop them, and it has only made them stronger. Full of WoeYou see them on TV, adorable youngsters asking to be adopted, But the dreadful odyssey of the Wednesday’s Child rarely has a made-for-television happy ending. Wright and WrongThe congressional investigation that is focusing on Speaker Jim Wright’s ethics is missing the real problem—his judgment. The Inventive Mr. ChuHeat + pressure + yttrium + a politically savvy University of Houston physicist = a formula to change the world. |
The Big SqueezyGet hip to zydeco, the born-on-bayou sound with the accordion accent. Ready for it red hot? Check out a Saturday-night church dance in Houston. Shades of SummerLet there be light, but leave us in the dark. Long before Ozona knew about ozone, Texans were inventing scads of ways to hide from rays. Texas Primer: The Dust StormLook out, Texas! If drought comes, can tons of blowing dirt be far behind? |
Columns
Behind the LinesFun voting no. LifestyleH-O-O-F-H-E-A-R-T-E-DDon’t say this word aloud in polite company if you want to stay on the author’s good side. |
BooksLong Live the KinkKinky Friedman dropped out for a while, but it sure beat dropping dead. Now the warped warbler is back with a play, a movie deal, and murder mystery number three. |
Reporter
ReporterTexas Monthly ReporterThe case of the purloined painting; how to tell the Surf Club from the Yacht Club; cream of the ice-cream crop; people who live in pink houses. |
Miscellany
Roar of the CrowdLonesome Dove on film; Lance Lalor on tape, an optimist on Mexico; West Texas State alumni on mediocrity. |
State SecretsLooking for gas in all the wrong places; a casualty report from the Texas drought; an early look at redistricting. |
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