April 1979

Features
At the Texas Medical Center the best hospitals, doctors, researchers, and medical technology anywhere in the world have combined to transform doctors from healers into superstars.
She learned the truth about selling cosmetics. Her customers didn’t want to buy products, they wanted to buy dreams.
Whether you drink champagne or beer, wear diamonds or rhinestones, one thing about Fiesta San Antonio is the same for everyone: it’s fun.
Columns
Good-bye, tacos. Hello, sukiyaki. A few restaurants are showing Texans the art of Japanese cooking.
J. S. Bach thrives in San Antonio and Fort Worth. Austin’s Dickran Atamian proves he’s a better pianist than entrepreneur.
The Alley turns Artichoke into candy. Whorehouse comes to Texas, where it belongs. The audience talks back to Women and Men.
Houston’s Museum of Fine Art resurrects the genius of Mark Rothko. James Surls tries to answer the tricky question: what is Texas art? Amarillo hosts five pioneers of American photography.
Austin City Limits makes pop music on television worth watching-and listening to. Also, musings on the superiority of Metroplex radio.
The first shot in Clements’ campaign to cut 25,000 state employees fells 68 casualties.
When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder? was already a bad play before it became a terrible movie.
Miscellany
Reporter
Striking the right chord with the Fort Worth Symphony and the wrong one with Mexico; grounding Wayland Baptist’s Flying Queens.