Politics & Policy
February 1, 1982
Little Oil
Big Oil no longer holds political sway in Washington, and wildcatters are celebrating a new Texas independents’ day.
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Movies
February 1, 1982
The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
In Pennies From Heaven Steve Martin gets serious, which is too bad--until he jumps into his dazzling dance numbers, which are too good to be true. Four Friends is about pals, and it palls. In Sharky’s Machine Burt Reynolds tries to mix gore with mush. Rollover defaults.
Feature
February 1, 1982
The Book of the Century-And-A-Half
Governor Bill Clements lassoed James Michener to write a tome about Texas. It’s due out in a couple of years. But that’s too long to wait, so we decided to write a version of our own.
Church
February 1, 1982
The Lord Giveth And The Lord Giveth
Evangelist Kenneth Copeland has good news: the faithful don’t have to wait for heaven to reap their reward. An Eastern Orthodox congregation in Austin is strict about performance of the liturgy but lax about getting to the church on time.
Behind the Lines
February 1, 1982
Behind the Lines
Out on the outskirts of town.
Architecture
February 1, 1982
Burnet’s Milestone
A winning design for the Burnet Civic Center shows why regionalist architecture is still going strong in rural Texas.
Business
January 1, 1982
Trust Me. Just Sign Here.
Whenever you buy or sell a house, hundreds of dollars of your money goes for something called title insurance. Title insurance is a great deal—for the title company.
Health
January 1, 1982
The Saint of Falfurrias
Supplicants in the Valley worship at the shrine of faith healer Don Pedrito Jaramillo, more powerful in death than he was in life.
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1982
The Lord’s Work
Rusty Hardin is a prosecutor. Most of the time, his job is to put people in jail. This time, he wants a man dead.
Touts
January 1, 1982
Touts
Between a rock and an art place.
Puzzle
January 1, 1982
Puzzle
Rolling stock.
Behind the Lines
January 1, 1982
Behind the Lines
The perfect city.
State Secrets
January 1, 1982
State Secrets
Poor Bunker Hunt; hogging the airwaves; why the establishment likes Hightower; worries in the Hobby camp.
Roar of the Crowd
January 1, 1982
Roar of the Crowd
Hearing the call of the Word, the wild, and the hogs.
Reporter
January 1, 1982
Texas Monthly Reporter
Football fever in Wink; political prognostication in Houston; gustatory grotesquerie in Austin; building bonanza in Fort Worth.
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1982
The Party’s Over
Time was when Texas Republicans had to stand united. But now their party's in power and there's rivalry in the ranks.
Movies
January 1, 1982
Big Frogs, Small Pond
Screen greats Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn embarrass themsevles in the namby-pamby On Golden Pond. Ragtime is a clinker. Absence of Malice has prescence--Paul Newman's.
Bum Steers
January 1, 1982
Bum Steer Awards 1982
In which we salute the folks who made Texas the bizarre, flagrant, preposterous, funny, and endearing place it was last year.
Church
January 1, 1982
Stumpers in the Pulpit
Potlicking in Houston churches is nothing new for a lot of black Baptist preachers. It just comes with the territory.
Art
January 1, 1982
Miss Van Buren Comes To Texas
An evocative American portrait is one of 75 masterpieces from the Phillips Collection now on display in Dallas. A photographic exhibit in Austin on family life covered just about everything but the family.