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Strange bedfellows.

Behind the Lines

Passions of the Mine

Start fooling around with Mother Earth and you end up getting accused of rape.

How Suite It Is

If there’s no room at these inns, you might as well stay home.

Touts

Stein, time, dine.

The Screening of America

Free at last! Free at last! from the junk you see on TV.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

It Ain’t Necessarily So-So

New recordings of Treemonisha and Porgy and Bess will do, but on the whole we prefer Puccini.

Where’s My Line?

Is one man one vote just another numbers racket?

Paw Knows Best

Your dog may be not only your best friend but your best financial advisor as well.

Plain Filming

Liv Ullmann is at her best when she’s at her worst.

Unsolved Crimes

Whodunit?

Cold Feat

When we say these recipes aren’t so hot, we don’t mean what you think.

Contest

Roots are all evil.

Behind the Lines

Only Yesterday

America and Texas: past and present.

Touts

Book Man, bag man, and bogeyman.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

The Big Beboppers

Would the renegade jazzmen who started bop recognize what’s happened to their music?

Turning the Other Chic

Politics, like fashion, is a fickle business.

Keeping Them in Stitches

If you want a suit only a soul singer would wear, we’ve got a tailor for you.

Drive, They Said

A mother is many things to her children, but mostly she’s a chauffer.

Toro! Toro! Toro!

The good new is we can predict a bull market. The bad news is we waited too long to tell you.

After the Fall

Two not-so-mild-mannered reporters fight for truth, justice, and the American way—and win.

Contest

Talented scouting.

Space City Odyssey

Houston may have no heart, little soul, and concrete arteriesóbut it works.

Behind the Lines

Help Yourself

Peter Passel and Rollo May help those who help themselves.

Touts

Water, water, everywhere.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

So Close, So Far

The natural gas deregulation bill almost made it through the labyrinth of Congress, but not exactly in the way they tell it in the civics books.

Role Call

In which our author discovers that paternity suits him.

Gassing Game

Something you can’t see, hear, smell, taste, or touch could turn you a tidy profit—if you play your cards right.

The Wages of Fun

The worst things in life are free; venereal disease, for instance.

Meaner Streets

Who is the Taxi Driver and why is he doing those terrible things?

Specialties of the House

Some cheap but gourmet dishes you can make at home on the range.

Contest

Accidentally on purpose.

Behind the Lines

Fires and Brimstone

Spiritual desolation in Crawford’s The Backslider; spiritual warfare in Naipaul’s Guerrillas.

Touts

Pots, Prints, Pirouettes, Plants, and Pizza.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

Beyond the Fringe

Surprise yourself; discover the very old and the very new in classical music.

Who Runs Cowtown?

From a long heritage of paternalism Fort Worth gropes toward democracy.

Food For Thought

The savage trials of eating with civilized children.

Little Big Man

The small investor is still the key to a big-time market.

The French Lieutenant’s Shrew

Two films that make it on one level, lose it on another.