March 1989 Cover

ON THE COVER: Cover photograph by Robert Latorre Styling by Debra Allen, coordinating by Michelle Mouwdy and John Farrell; digital image retouching by Dallas Photolab; Western wear courtesy of Wild Bill’s/The Official Western Wear Store, Dallas; horse courtesy of JC Ranch, Terrell; stock photographs courtesy of Image Bank (White House), Picture Group (Bush and Baker), Black Star (Tower), Gamma-Liaison (Mosbacher and Cavasos)

March 1989

Table of Contents

Features

Twenty-five years ago, Texans hoped LBJ would lead them into the promised land. They have the same hopes for the new president, but George Bush is making no promises.

Twenty-five years ago, Texans hoped JBJ would lead them into the promised land. They have the same hopes for the new president, but George Bush is making no promises.

In George Bush’s Cabinet, Texans are crawling out of the woodwork. Read about their pasts, their pets, their secret passions.

As Texans’ pride of place rose with the price of oil, collectors scrambled for the few documents of the Texas Revolution. Suddenly there seemed to be plenty to go around. But no one thought to ask why.

A gallery of nine Texans and their other selves.

The saga of a man and his helpful insects illustrates the age-old battle between visionaries and bureaucrats.

An employee’s vandalism by computer might have gone unpunished but for a rookie prosecutor out to test a new law.

In Joe Scrugg’s music Everymom evicts under-the-bed monsters, Everykid remembers on Monday morning the fifteen things he needs for school that day, and Everybody delights in Scrugg’s corny but sensitive portrayal of childhood.

Columns

Behind the Lines

Beyond Cisneros.

Texana

In the fifties a Baptist minister’s daughters were expected to be models of piety—clean, demure, virginal, and impervious to the lure of secular pleasures like makeup and TV.

Sports

You probably think that the main reason to go to the Texas Rangers’ Florida training camp is to watch baseball. You’re probably wrong.

Books

New fiction takes the reader on forays into Louisiana swamps, excursions into smoke-filled Austin honky-tonks, and down life’s highway with a lady trucker

Reporter

Reporter

Austin’s homeless find a home sweet home on the lake; Fort Worth’s impresario of white gospel puts on a no-sweat show; Dallas’ Comet crashes; and Houston’s Orange Show marks a decade of—well, orange.

Miscellany

Getting bummed out on 1988; separating church and state; facing difficult decisions.

Food for thought: agriculture commissioner Jim Hightower may get plowed under; Coastal tries to cut the golden parachute; calling all cars in El Paso.

Domain: A TEXAS MONTHLY Editorial Supplement

Brunch: The civilized meal for spring.

How every cook can concoct the classic Southwestern flavor of cabrito.

Jackson Hicks elevates the berry.

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