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July 1991

Table of Contents

Features

When it comes to moviemaking, there’s no place like home.

Giant is just one of the best movies about Texas.

How Hollywood sees us—and how Hollywood got us wrong.

From wheezy-voiced geezers to yuk-it-up yokels, these actors excel at portraying the stereotypical Texan.

The Lone Star State plays a lead role in fourteen new releases.

It’s got everything: romance, action, tragedy, coonskin cap.

Oscar-winning screenwriter Horton Foote continues to capture ordinary people coping with life’s difficulties.

Dallas is a city that has prided itself on having escaped the hostility of the civil rights years—until now.

In Texas, the cowboy boot still makes the man.

Ann Richards, Bob Bullock, and Gib Lewis are headed for a crash over the stated budget.

Columns

Behind the Lines

Politics

Under Jim Hightower, the agriculture department was liberal and loose. Under Rick Perry, it will be corporate and crisp.

Texana

Action abounds in the new slide show at the San Jacinto Monument, but the view of history falls a bit short.

Lifestyle

Kicked out of the Miss USA contest, two Texas beauty moguls landed on their feet and started their own pagent.

Reporter

Reporter

Three galas are all in a night’s work for Houston’s TV party animal.

Reporter

A new contender for the margarita-inventor title turns up in S.A.

Reporter

San Diego’s museum is just on box short of telling the whole truth.

Miscellany

Roar of the Crowd

State Secrets

State of the Art

Photograph by David Levinthal

State Wide Business

Williamson-Dickie of Fort Worth has a blue-collar gold mine in Dickies work clothes.

State Wide Business

An Austin investigator clues accountants in on how to sniff out financial shenanigans.

Recipes

Four Seasons Hotel, Riverside Cafe, Austin

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