Architecture
March 1, 1985
Home Maker
Many of the best modern homes in the fifties featured natural materials, interior courtyards, and built-in furniture—and architect Harwell Harris was the reason.
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Energy
February 1, 1985
Texas Primer: The Oil Depletion Allowance
Assailed by presidents, skewered by senators, decried by the New York Times, the oil depletion allowance has survived it all. It helps to have friends in high places.
Politics & Policy
February 1, 1985
Mayor, Council Locked in Bitter Struggle!
Council tells mayor her budget stinks! Mayor tells council to like it or lump it! Both sides twist arms, trade insults! Read all about it!
Health
February 1, 1985
Leaving the Bottle Behind
Like any disease, alcoholism has specific symptoms. Like many religions, drying-out programs require abstinence, blind faith, and confession.
Health
February 1, 1985
My Life as a Drunk
It may be hard to believe that you can drink two fifths a day and not only function but function well. But I did it. For a while.
Texas History
February 1, 1985
The Big Country
The great Texas ranches and how they got that way.
Touts
February 1, 1985
Touts
Getting ready for February’s red-letter day.
State Secrets
February 1, 1985
State Secrets
What’s the point at the Dallas Museum of Art? What does $25 oil mean for Houston? Hush, Gib. James Baker’s new job is a labor of love.
Roar of the Crowd
February 1, 1985
Roar of the Crowd
Contemplating marriage; speaking up for Houston; deciphering Texas myths; transplanting Austin’s airport.
Reporter
February 1, 1985
Reporter
Beauteous burgers in Bells and Springlake; tough times in Tyler; ringside raving in Fort Worth; avid aspirations in Lubbock.
Puzzle
February 1, 1985
Puzzle
Minding your peas and cues.
Movies
February 1, 1985
Wilds of the Soul
Mrs. Soffel weaves a tale of love and damnation; A Passage to India is a smooth, brocaded expedition; The Cotton Club offers pomp by the bale.
Feature
February 1, 1985
When Picasso Was a Texan
You say you’ve never heard of Picasso’s burnt-orange period? And you call yourself a real Texan?
Business
February 1, 1985
The Last Roundup
“When the cowboys on the 06 ranch talked about losing a way of life, they often pointed to their neighbor, Clayton Williams, as an example of what they meant. He was a millionaire and an oilman, and he represented everything they hated.”
Classical Music
February 1, 1985
Strummin’ On the Old Gamba
Using antique and original instruments like the viola da gamba, the Texas Baroque Ensemble is making Garland the place to hear early music in Texas.
Business
February 1, 1985
When Grandma Talks…
Rich old ladies who hoard their securities set the best example for managing your stocks.
Behind the Lines
February 1, 1985
Behind the Lines
A tilt of the axis.
Books
February 1, 1985
Eavesdropping On History
Max Crawford’s Lords of the Plain is a convincing tale of cavalry and Indians; Thomas McGuane’s Something to Be Desired is an insightful cowtown comedy.
Art
February 1, 1985
Sterling Surls
With his rough-hewn sculptures that speak to mankind’s most basic needs, James Surls is fast becoming the dean of Texas art.
Art
January 1, 1985
“Take Nothing and Make Something”
Working alone at his home in East Texas, Fox Harris is divinely inspired to create towering, fanciful sculptures out of junk.
Sports
January 1, 1985
Towers of Power
So. Ralph Sampson listens to Grover Washington and Akeem Olajuwon craves Chinese food. Now you know.
State Secrets
January 1, 1985
State Secrets
To oilmen, intangible means untouchable; to UT, untouchable means Fred Akers; a legal courtship sinks; a billboard solution may float.
Reporter
January 1, 1985
Texas Monthly Reporter
Law and order in Colorado City; winning and losing with the Dallas Diamonds; bargains and hassles on People Express; broiling and sweating in pursuit of mesquite chic.
Being Texan
January 1, 1985
Texas Primer: The Sticker Bur
After encountering this small brown barb, the wise Texas child learns to pick and choose his fights with the landscape.
Movies
January 1, 1985
Star Dreck
2010: a space travesty; Dune gets mired in pomp and slime; A Soldier’s Story is a murder mystery with soul; even Streep and De Niro can’t save Falling in Love; The Brother from Another Planet is woozily morose.
Jazz
January 1, 1985
Heard Any Good Live Jazz Lately?
A purist’s guide to the night spots of Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Austin.
Parks & Recs
January 1, 1985
A Grand Canyon
In 1541 Coronado and his troops stumbled upon a huge canyon in the midst of grassy plains and gazed upon it with awe. Journeying down into Palo Duro Canyon on mules 443 years later, I began to understand why.
Bum Steers
January 1, 1985
1985 Bum Steer Awards
A year of arousing art, bumbling bush, coerced canines, deranged Dallas, eureka! Eureste, freeway fantasy, groping Germans, hurtling helicopters, idiotic Irving, and jocose jelly beans.
Classical Music
January 1, 1985
Swell Sonatas
Twenty picks for the best classical recording of 1984.
Books
January 1, 1985
Mexico Refried
A book on Mexico by New York Times correspondent Alan Riding is a little more than a rehash of recent history.
Architecture
January 1, 1985
Strident Whimsy
Arquitectonica is trying to sell Texans on gimmicky forms, bright colors, and high-tech materials in the name of avant-garde.