1986 – Page 5 of 5

Television|
March 1, 1986

Falling Star

T. R. Fehrenbach’s Lone Star is now a series on public television. Watch it and sleep.

State Secrets|
March 1, 1986

State Secrets

How much will $15 oil coast Mark White?; two new R’s for school districts: resistin’ reform; the truth about those bank rumors.

Post-Modern Times|
March 1, 1986

Post-Modern Times

At the singles bar of the eighties, is it’s not love, it could still be a good investment opportunity.

Movies|
March 1, 1986

Dizzy Spin

Down and out in Beverly Hills is Mazursky magic; Clan of the Cave Bear is Sheena of the Stone Age; Trouble in Mind is—never mind.

Fatherhood|
March 1, 1986

Kwell or Be Kwelled

Cradle Cap was nothing, diaper rash was a breeze. But when my son brought home head lice—well, it made the plague look good.

Downtown|
March 1, 1986

Downtown

Look into the Houston sky—those helicopters are full of commuters who are having fun.

Classical Music|
March 1, 1986

Changing the Tune

Some new recordings of old symphonies reveal how the composers really wanted things to sound.

Back Roads|
March 1, 1986

Back Roads

Ted Krechel, honorary winter Texan mayor of Pharr, oversees a culture as arcane as a Melanesian cargo cult.

Touts|
February 1, 1986

Touts

A few thoughts for Valentine’s—coming through soft and clear.

State Secrets|
February 1, 1986

State Secrets

Mark White’s insurance policy; not all semiconductor dumpers are Japanese; betting on a lottery; Tom Loeffler’s odd ads.

Post-Modern Times|
February 1, 1986

Post-Modern Times

In a Twilight Zone-like pocket near UT there are some kids who aren’t ready to grow up.

Movies|
February 1, 1986

Me Redford, You Streep

Out of Africa is lavishly done up but emotionally dehumidified; Young Sherlock Holmes is more Hardy Boys than Conan Doyle; Revolution is nothing but a megabucks disaster.

Bum Steers|
February 1, 1986

The 1986 Bum Steer Awards

A year of altered antlers, bunkum bars, cloddish coaches, defoliant diets, enervated elephants, filched flamingos, gunshot guitarists, haywire holidays, intoxicants’ incentives, jejune judges, kissing K-9’s, lousy lobster, and misdirected Michener.

Downtown|
February 1, 1986

Downtown

The Dallas Citizens Council has a new look, but it’s singing the same old tune.

Classical Music|
February 1, 1986

No-shows and Great Shows

The only excitement of the Dallas Opera season came from a couple of fortunate gambles, while the Houston Grand Opera triumphed by bringing Faust alive for contemporary audiences.

Back Roads|
February 1, 1986

Back Roads

For a singing telegram with a little something extra, just call the Hip-O-Gram Girls.

Art|
February 1, 1986

Rauschenberg Relics

In the current Rauschenberg exhibit at Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum the artist finds his first thirty years a tough act to follow.

Style & Design|
January 1, 1986

Lone Star Shtick

Part of it was my fault. But I insist on sharing the blame with Tommy Tune, Judi Buie, Dan Jenkins, Mort Cooperman, Dandy Don Meredith, New York Daily News gossip columnist Liz Smith, a terrible—and now mercifully defunct—restaurant called the Dallas Cowboy, numerous Texas-based kicker-pickers like Willie Nelson, Jerry

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