Table of Contents

February 1991

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Features

Sissy Spacek’s Long Walk Home

You can take the girl out of East Texas, but you can’t take East Texas out of the girl.

Survivors

Portraits of the last of some exotic animals now sheltered in Texas.

More Precious Than Oil

Pipeline leaks, unplugged wells, toxic drilling materials, and a virtually unregulated oil industry are leaving a legacy of polluted groundwater.

“I’m Not a Bad Girl. I Just Do Bad Things”

Kristin Bauman, the 21-year-old with a $1.2 million trust fund, learned early on that notoriety is far more seductive than propriety.

Sweet Hearts

Love at first bite: Valentine messages that are in good taste.

Is the Legislature For Sale?

To reassure a skeptical public, members must pass an ethics reform bill this session. And here’s what it should say.

Columns

Behind the Lines

The biggest Bandits

Shopping

Barney’s Does Dallas

Love, love, kiss, kiss: New York’s hippest store meets Texas’ fashion capital.

Business

Saving Face

Nearly two years after the Exxon Valdez relations gurus are busy telling industries how to avoid looking bad.

Politics

The Old Soldier

In 1957 General Walker warned his troops of rampant communism and lost his job. Today the world has changed, but he hasn’t.

Popular Music

Yo, Y’all

Carrollton’s Vanilla Ice is the country’s coolest rapper, and several other Texas acts are hot on his heels.

Reporter

Reporter

Nowhere to Run

Refugees from a polluted world do battle for a toxic-free zone in the Trans-Pecos.

Reporter

Power Trip

Bodybuilder John Jacobs wants to pump you up-for Jesus.

Reporter

Magnet Musicians

Singers Edie Brickell and Sara Hickman share a formula for success attend the right school and take up art.

Miscellaneous

Roar of the Crowd

Tales From the Oil Patch

State Wide Business

Question Authority

A tiny Houston delivery firm did-and now it has the broadest trucking rights ever granted in Texas.

State Wide Business

Hock Treatment

With clean, well-lighted places-filled with bargains-Forth Worth-based Cash America is spiffing up the sullied image of pawnshops.

State of the Art

Atlas Moth

State Fare

State Fare: East Texas Onion Pudding

The Mansion on Turtle Creek, Dallas.

State Secrets

High Water

Blogs