Behind the Lines
April 1, 1983
Behind the Lines
Run for the money.
1983 – Page 4 of 4
Books
April 1, 1983
Oil Rigged
The Great Energy Scam purports to uncover the collusion of the feds and the oil companies, but the real scandal is what the author overlooks. Yet another book on killer Ted Bundy sheds no light on his crimes. Roughneck is a rousing look at America’s most radical labor union.
True Crime
March 1, 1983
Blood of the Lamb
A high school teacher shot up the First Baptist Church in the East Texas steel town of Daingerfield, and the agony lasted longer than anyone could have imagined.
Style & Design
March 1, 1983
Lyndon Johnson, Hairdresser, Prepares for Battle
The long afternoons of the best friend the rich women of Houston have ever had.
Art
March 1, 1983
The Cutting Edge
Texas' glass artists are leading a revolution in an ancient craft.
Art
March 1, 1983
The Gittings People
Shoot enough portraits of Texans, and you'll have made a portrait of Texas.
Politics & Policy
March 1, 1983
Friends In Deed
Meet some of Texas' secular latter-day saints: volunteers.
Touts
March 1, 1983
Touts
What’s red and black and read all over?
State Secrets
March 1, 1983
State Secrets
Wright is wrong in the Houston mayor’s race; the medical establishment beats the state budget crunch; capital punishment faces death by bureaucracy; will defense put John Tower on the defensive?
Roar of the Crowd
March 1, 1983
Roar of the Crowd
No oil in Israel, no crown for the congressman, no Coke at the Last Supper.
Reporter
March 1, 1983
Texas Monthly Reporter
Pecos bucks for the title of world’s oldest rodeo; medical students make us pay now so they can make us pay later; Ground Zero radiates good, atomic fun; Texas’ jails get slammed; Fort Worth’s namesake languishes among Yankees.
Puzzle
March 1, 1983
Puzzle
Go play in the traffic.
Energy
March 1, 1983
Texas Primer: The Right-angle Pump
West Texas was a desert when this little irrigation device came along. Now it’s a desert that produces more cotton than anywhere else in the country.
Movies
March 1, 1983
The Nerd Who Would Be King
Martin Scorcese’s The King of Comedy is about the stock-in-trade of comedians, but who’s the laughingstock? You’ll be smitten with Lovesick. The Year of Living Dangerously teeters precariously between metaphysics and lust.
Fun
March 1, 1983
Say, Have You Heard the One…
One man’s ludicrous attempts to trace the origin of a joke led him to a simple truth: life is funny.
Crime
March 1, 1983
Daddy’s Gone to Jail
Sometimes prison is harder for the people on the other side of the bars.
Behind the Lines
March 1, 1983
Behind the Lines
The graybeard at the fat stock show.
Architecture
March 1, 1983
Architect in Wonderland
The barren plains of the Southwest and the fertile fields of his mind led architect Bruce Goff to create houses that got curiouser and curiouser.
Texas History
February 1, 1983
Texas Primer: Lyndon’s Lincoln
Can you picture Lbj in a Datsun?
Being Texan
February 1, 1983
Main Street
It’s Houston's driveway, a twenty-mile kaleidoscope of bankers, punkers, strippers, surgeons, students, grackles, and cars.
Politics & Policy
February 1, 1983
The Year Everything Changed
If you think Texas is pretty much the same as it was ten years ago, you’re wrong. Nineteen seventy-three remade the state overnight.
Food & Drink
February 1, 1983
Tea for Texas
Can Texans be won over to the antique tradition of tea and little sandwiches in the afternoon? Dallas’ and Houston’s new gilded hotels are counting on it.
State Secrets
February 1, 1983
State Secrets
Treasure hunters want state booty; Republicans aren’t so hot about Phil Gramm; there’s hope for Texans with money in Mexico; Texas newspapers worry about USA Today.
Touts
February 1, 1983
Touts
Sing along, turn around, dip in.
Roar of the Crowd
February 1, 1983
Roar of the Crowd
End of the line for a cop, a coach, quilters, and the Confederate Air Force.
Reporter
February 1, 1983
Texas Monthly Reporter
The unhealthy politics of emergency medicine; according an accordionist his due; sucking it up for Lite beer; the condo boom that went bust.
Puzzle
February 1, 1983
Puzzle
Paper tigers.
Music
February 1, 1983
Thunder Claps
The Fabulous Thunderbirds storm away on a new album that shows why they’re Texas’ hardiest rhythm and blues band. Eight more releases capture everything from mandolin picking to Balinese monkey chants.
Movies
February 1, 1983
Next to Godliness
Gandhi presents its title character as all but a god and India as all but a paradise. Starstruck is a lark; Sophie’s Choice is a letdown.
Feature
February 1, 1983
Other Main Streets
They’re where you went to get your hair cut or to see a picture show or to watch the squirrels on the courthouse lawn.
News & Politics
February 1, 1983
Charlie Brooks’ Last Words
Charlie Brooks was the first man to die by lethal injection, but everyone wondered whether he or his partner was the real murderer. In his last days, Brooks answered that, and other questions.
Food & Drink
February 1, 1983
I Am the Greatest Cook in the World
And I’m telling you, if you can’t batter it, fry it, spike it with chiles, or bathe it in buttermilk, it’s not worth your time.
Classical Music
February 1, 1983
Standing Room Opera
Texas opera lovers would have ended the season happily just having seen a lively Rosenkavalier, a magical Rheingold, and a fiery Wozzeck. But then the Houston Grand Opera’s Pagliacci came along and took their breath away.
Business
February 1, 1983
The Cassandra of Crude
Dale Steffes can predict the future of the oil business. So why do the majors turn a deaf ear? Because, says Steffes, the news is all bad.
Behind the Lines
February 1, 1983
Behind the Lines
What’s next?
Books
February 1, 1983
As Good as Her Word
Texas women write about crop dusters and frozen custard and the Dallas-Forth Worth International Airport in the encouraging new anthology Her Work. Life Sentences, though, is a flimsy feminist exercise.
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1983
The Making of a Congressman
Twelve ran, Mike Andrews won. A saga of ambition, money, power, courage, and the nature of urban politics in Texas.
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1983
God’s Happy Hour
Every year communities scattered across Texas hold wet-dry elections. Each one pits the forces of fundamentalism against the forces of realism. This is the story of one such election.
Touts
January 1, 1983
Touts
Animal magnetism.
State Secrets
January 1, 1983
State Secrets
One giant step for wives; one small step for John Glenn; why oilmen will never rule the world; why the new Texas congressmen won’t either.
Roar of the Crowd
January 1, 1983
Roar of the Crowd
Banned in the schools, school kids in the band.
Reporter
January 1, 1983
Texas Monthly Reporter
Two newspapers in search of nothing in particular; a fish story with a happy ending; an eleven-letter word for “crossword puzzle whiz”; the cutting edge of Corpus Christi’s minority politics.
Puzzle
January 1, 1983
Puzzle
A slice of life.
The Culture
January 1, 1983
Texas Primer: The Dallas Model
The sweetheart of the Apparel Mart: where she came from and where she’s going.
Movies
January 1, 1983
Nolo Contendere
Paul Newman stars as an existential ambulance chaser in The Verdict, a dismal study of law and disorder. Best Friends will alienate you; Heartaches will make you feel good. 48 Hrs. is dirty talk and deja vu.
Lifestyle
January 1, 1983
A Home Away from Home
Thanks to indulgent parents, many of today’s wealthy kids are disdaining dorms for UT-area condos - and forfeiting what may be the best part of a college education.
Bum Steers
January 1, 1983
Bum Steer Awards 1983
Presenting blazing barbecue, bumbling Bush, blaspheming Baptists, and 118 more of the best of the worst of Texas.
Behind the Lines
January 1, 1983
Behind the Lines
Negative utopias.
Books
January 1, 1983
A Monumental Man
In The Path to Power Robert Caro brings the Texas of the twenties and thirties to hot, scrubby life, but tries to fit the young Lyndon Johnson into a prefabricated and constricting mold.
Art
January 1, 1983
The Quixotic Theotokopoulos
A spectacular show at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts reexamines the genius of El Greco.