September 1989

September 1989

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Features

“I Loved the Dapper Bandit”

She was a hooker. He was a race car driver. They fell in love. She moved in. He put on his three-piece suit and went to work. She was always on call. They fought. She moved out. Then she found out that his real job was bank jobs.

As told to Mark Seal

How George Foreman Finally Beat Muhammad Ali

It took him a decade to throw the punch that knocked out his toughest opponent—his own obsession with getting another shot at Ali. Now he wants to take on Mike Tyson.

by Gary Cartwright

The Wolf Experiment

In a program that will serve as a model for saving other endangered animals, the red wolf has been rescued from extinction—but will it ever roam free in Texas again?

by Patricia Sharpe

The All-New, Improved America’s Team

Three ad agencies take the ball and run (wild) with it.

The Man Hollywood Trusts

From Top Gun to Batman, Austin’s Warren Skaaren writes the movies everyone wants to see.

by Emily Yoffe

Little Shop of Hoarders

There’s treasure on Galveston Island; it’s buried in Hendley Market.

by Jerry Jeanmard

Columns

Behind the Lines

The Baptist guerrilla.

by Gregory Curtis

Food

Mayan Over Matter

East meets West (and New Southwest and ancient Mexican) at Houston’s oh-so-trendy Palacio Tzintzuntzan.

Paul Burka

Art

New World to Conquer

For years, the Dallas Museum of Art sought prestige by following the mainstream. The new director thinks it’s time to change course.

by Michael Ennis

Books

The Way of the Buffalo

Dallas novelist C. W. Smith takes a long, hard look at a subject with a painful history.

by Suzanne Winckler

Reporter

Whose Texas Rangers are They Anyhow?

Dallas’ grandstanding irks Arlington; writers jockey for position in the Matamoros book derby; A&M’s bluebonnets show their not-so-true colors; San Antonio goes loco over Lico Lico.

by Joe Nick Patoski

Miscellaneous

Roar of the Crowd

The Best and The Worst of It

What we have in the Texas Lege; “What I Am” on record; what mom is about.

State Secrets

Fire Alarm

Why the Houston fire department needs chauffeurs; a Colorado controversy pits the Basses against Coors; the ecstasy and the agony at Vinson and Elkins.

Edited by Paul Burka