November 1984
Features
These fourteen Texas sheriffs are everything you thought a sheriff ought to be. But look quick; the old-time county lawman is riding off into the sunset.
Shopping from catalogs can keep you in fashion and out of the malls.
What astronaut Alan Bean saw on the moon changed his life. Now, with paint and canvas, he’s trying to let the rest of us see it too.
For the first few hours of life, our baby seemed fine. Then she started turning blue, and her two-year struggle to survive began.
When Houston’s rich and powerful join forces with environmentalists to battle big corporations, they can be fighting over only one thing. Garbarge.
Once upon a time a velveteen couch traveled the land in search of heroes and myths. It found them from the Panhandle to the Gulf.
What is it that makes them dance across the desert night? A trick of physics—or something stranger?
Columns
Whistler had nothing on the 22 artists represented in a survey of Hispanic art.
Dan Jenkins’ new football novel, Life Its Ownself, picks up where Semi-Tough left off; Heat from Another Sun, a dark detective novel, turns on the gore.
Tribute to Teagarden captures the fullness and humanity of the late Texas trombonist’s art; plus a roundup of recent jazz releases.
Why did I trade in my trouble-free condo for an aging country home with decrepit plumbing? I’m trying to figure that out myself.
Country and Places in the Heart both heap on down-home moral uplift; Stop Making Sense is a joyous rockumentary; Amadeus spouts dingdong conceits.
Brave Combo’s World Dance Music brings wit and verve to an unlikely mix of sounds; the Sir Douglas Quartet is still recording after all these years.
And all through the house, every modem was stirring, and so was the mouse.
Reporter
Life after the oil bust is fair-to-Midland; bad News, hard Times in Laredo; I hear a timpani; a coach who believes winning is everything.
Miscellany
No joy in Cubville; deregulation is a gas; two airline wars—one cold, one hot; are the politicians back in control at UT?