April 1981
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Features
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Tenting Tonight
How you can-and why you should-go camping in the middle of the week.
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Tenting Tonight
How you can-and why you should-go camping in the middle of the week.
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Pack Up Your Troubles
Today’s high-tech camping gear has stolen a march on your old kit bag.
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Grin and Bear It
Camping gets you back to the basics: blisters, chiggers, and, yes, deep satisfaction.
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Shrimpers
Someone endured weeks of hard work, loneliness, and seasickness to land that lovely pink delicacy on your plate.
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Passing On
In her darkest, final hours, a young mother turns to a new kind of medical care for help.
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God’s Angry Man
Evangelist James Robison is using the pulpit, prime time television, and Cullen Davis to try to save the world.
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Welcome, Mr. Kennedy, To Dallas
Dallas was in an ugly mood in November 1973, and non one had done more to create that mood than H.L. Hunt.
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Columns
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Miracle on Main Street
Le Select gives Houston fine French cooking in simple surrounds and at unbeatable prices; Hedary’s, a Lebanese outpost in Fort Worth, offers adventurous Cowtowners some exotic alternatives to beef.
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Up In Arms
Is your family safer with a gun in the house?
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Behind the Lines
Strange bedfellows.
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Little Big Museum
While other U.S. museums sought Rembrandts and Cészannes, Fort Worth’s maverick Amon Carter Museum collected an astound assortment of paintings and photographs of the American West.
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Rule, Hispania
In a city known for its tough ethnic politics, Henry Cisneros is out to prove that a Mexican Emerican can be elected mayor of San Antonio.
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I’m Listening As Hard As I Can
When a youn woman found out she was slowly going deaf, she had to struggle not only with the handicap but also with her refusal to admit the loss.
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Magnificent Deception
In Eyewitness things are never what the seem; Roman Polanskifailed to take a novel approach to Tess; a heroine of Cattle Annie and Little Britches keeps the movie from fading into the sunset; the producers of The Dogs of War should have let sleeping dogs lie; American Pop is kitsch as kitsch can.
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Reporter
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Texas Monthly Reporter
Meet Texas’ staunches liberal crusader, biggest trade show, slickest drug peddlers, and canniest mall builders.
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Miscellany
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Puzzle
Lockup.
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Touts
Bed and breakfast.
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State Secrets
Cutting up in the Big Thicket Association; uranium mines get the shaft; the Light at the end of the tunnel; how to make Yankees pay for our oil.
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Roar of the Crowd
Zookeeper, take care; burglar, beware; physician, declare.
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