ON THE COVER: Cover illustration by Bill Mayer.
January 1991
Table of Contents
Features
The 1991 Bum Steer AwardsIt was a year of absent anchors, Bush broccoliphobia, contraband clocks, dastardly Dakotas, egad! Elections, foolhardy fig leaves, governor’s grackles, Hussein harmonizing, incoherent Incaviglia, jury junkets, KO kisses, licentious license plates, misunderstood mummies, naughty notebooks, oil-spill oratory, pretentious pyres, quintessential quadraceps, reverential Sakowitz, telephone telepathy, unwise uppercuts, viper volunteers, wildcatting whoopers, x-pired x-Aggies, yucky yards, zealous Zerubbabel. God’s JewelerPiery or passion: the trials of James Avery, craftsman. The Hyde Park RapistA frightened silence keeps a neighborhood threat alive. |
Highway 1Retracing the trail that tamed the Texas wilderness--the Camino Real. Passage to IndianAn enterprising businessman at the turn of the century steered tourists to the Southwest with Pueblo Deco architecture. |
Columns
Behind the LinesThe Governor Who Ate OnionsLifestyleCoffee Mates |
ScienceBig BangBusinessA Bitter Pill |
Reporter
ReporterThe Grim RecordersGas prices, weather, and day of the week all count in the dismal task of predicting holiday highway death tolls. |
Miscellany
Roar of the CrowdThe Art of PersuasionState Wide BusinessReturn to SenderIn 1998 Neiman Marcus shelled out $119 million for Horchow Mail Order—only to have the cataloger lose $28 million within two years. State Wide BusinessRisky BusinessEastern states have hit the jackpot with lotteries. But will Lotto play in Texas? |
State of the ArtTexas DesperadoState SecretsA quarter may not be enough to buy a newspaper much longer. |




