The Culture
February 1, 1980
True Love
Actual photos! In living color! Incontrovertible evidence that kissing is fun!
1980 – Page 5 of 5
Film & TV
February 1, 1980
I Found Romance at the Bijou Theatre
We don’t know how you learned about the birds and the bees, but we’ll bet you learned about love the same way we did: from the movies.
Being Texan
February 1, 1980
The Joy of Kissing
The art of romantic osculation barely survived the jaded seventies. Now it’s time to rediscover the private delights and civic benefits of real kissing.
Health
February 1, 1980
The Crack-Up
You learn one clear and not so very grim lesson by looking death in the face.
Touts
February 1, 1980
Touts
Fortunes, falcons, and folderol.
Travel & Outdoors
February 1, 1980
Flipping Out
When big-time gymnastics came to Fort Worth, half the contestants were steely-eyed little girls with the bodies of children and the wills of fanatics.
State Secrets
February 1, 1980
State Secrets
Marlin sidetracks the Missouri-Pacific; school boards wrangle over the handicapped; two Texas Sports magazines slug it out.
Roar of the Crowd
February 1, 1980
Roar of the Crowd
Onward through the smoke, upward through defeat, backward through time.
Reporter
February 1, 1980
Texas Monthly Reporter
Old what’s-his-name is the most powerful man in Texas; Simone Beck takes her culinary magic show on the road; duck hunters and conservationists battle over a marsh.
Puzzle
February 1, 1980
Puzzle
Name that cartoon.
Lifestyle
February 1, 1980
Chamber Music
Potty training doesn’t have to be the great bugaboo of raising children.
The Inside Story
February 1, 1980
The Inside Story
Love in Bloom.
Film
February 1, 1980
Danger: Low Voltage
The Electric Horseman got its wires crossed. Kramer vs. Kramer is an above-average film taken from a below-average novel.
Classical Music
February 1, 1980
The Foreign Legion
Dallas Civic Opera is a grand old lady who knows her European opera. But sometimes she gets a little senile.
Church
February 1, 1980
Lord, Won’t You Buy Me Some Time on TV?
Preachers Robert Schuller and Rex Humbard have zeroed in on the modern way to reach a congregation: electronically.
Politics & Policy
February 1, 1980
Behind the Lines
Why Houston has the best schools in the state.
Art
February 1, 1980
Ramblin’ Rose
Eminent art critic Barbara Rose has assembled an exhibit of paintings of the eighties. Oh, yeah? Where did she get them?
Health
January 1, 1980
Life Got You Down? Getting Nowhere? Wishing for Wealth? For Success? For Happiness?
My friend, you have come to the right place.
Food & Drink
January 1, 1980
The Vanishing Steak
Beefing and chewing the fat about a rare pleasure that’s almost done for.
Being Texan
January 1, 1980
Elegant Fossils
Once Texas was a land of fabulous, ornate county courthouses. It still is, but today they’re flamboyant relics in our streamlined urban landscapes.
Touts
January 1, 1980
Touts
Night stalkers and day walkers.
Theater
January 1, 1980
Life After SMU
When Stage #1 opened as a halfway house for theater graduates from SMU, the participants weren’t pitied but applauded.
Travel & Outdoors
January 1, 1980
Doing the Greenville Avenue Boogie
By reputation Dallas is a staid city. But there is one strip where Dallas is fevered, excessive, and lascivious, and where every night is party night.
State Secrets
January 1, 1980
State Secrets
A helicopter plague descends on Dallas; is the Texas environmentalist an endangered species?; cattlemen won’t be cowed.
Roar of the Crowd
January 1, 1980
Roar of the Crowd
Movers and fakers.
Reporter
January 1, 1980
Texas Monthly Reporter
George Bush wants to shake your hand; Rita Clements wants to paint your Governor’s Mansion; Dallas wants to bring you art, lots of art.
Puzzle
January 1, 1980
Puzzle
Letters please.
Music
January 1, 1980
Willie and the Power Boys
New records from Texas’ die-hard country, rock, and punk musicians.
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1980
Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven . . .
The Panhandle is home for the country’s only H-bomb assembly plant. Aren’t you glad we told you?
Jazz
January 1, 1980
Love For Sale
The Midland Jazz Classic wasn’t cheap, but it was worth the price.
The Inside Story
January 1, 1980
The Inside Story
Steering Bum Steers.
Film
January 1, 1980
Catch a Riding Star
A boy and his horse reach great heights in The Black Stallion. The Rose, with Bette Midler, is no American beauty.
Health
January 1, 1980
The Baby Factory
At Houston’s Jefferson Davis Hospital, the wonders of modern medicine collide with the raw realities of birth, poverty, neglect and hope.
Environment
January 1, 1980
Terminal Case
Galveston has withstood tidal waves, hurricanes, gamblers, and tourists. Can it survive a superport?
Classical Music
January 1, 1980
The Trill of It All
Houston and Dallas opera companies could fudge on shoe sizes when it came to casting Cinderellas, but the voices had to fit just so.
Church
January 1, 1980
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen
A Dallas rabbi says Christmas is a form of persecution for Jews; a Disciples of Christ pastor discusses suffering with equanimity.
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1980
Behind the Lines
Two questions about school desegregation: Is busing the only way? Are integrated schools inferior?
Books
January 1, 1980
Dr. Updike
John Updike’s problems are our pleasures. Mean Scrooge McDuck returns in a nostalgic comic-book collection.