September 1989
Features
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.
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.
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?
Three ad agencies take the ball and run (wild) with it.
From Top Gun to Batman, Austin’s Warren Skaaren writes the movies everyone wants to see.
There’s treasure on Galveston Island; it’s buried in Hendley Market.
Columns
For years, the Dallas Museum of Art sought prestige by following the mainstream. The new director thinks it’s time to change course.
Dallas novelist C. W. Smith takes a long, hard look at a subject with a painful history.
East meets West (and New Southwest and ancient Mexican) at Houston’s oh-so-trendy Palacio Tzintzuntzan.
Reporter
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.
Miscellany
What we have in the Texas Lege; “What I Am” on record; what mom is about.
Why the Houston fire department needs chauffeurs; a Colorado controversy pits the Basses against Coors; the ecstasy and the agony at Vinson and Elkins.

