
August 1980 Issue

Features


Ring of Truth
Two brave bulls stood between Paco Olivera and the prize he had worked for all his life.
Columns
Lasagne and Old Lace
Try pasta and veal at Sergio’s in Dallas—that’s Italian! For an outstanding Sunday brunch, put your stock in Austin’s Green Pastures.
Bring Home the Bach
Mozart and Beethoven made an appearance, but Johann Sebastian was the guest of honor at Victoria’s annual Bach Festival.
God With the Wends
Texas’ rural Wends take time from chores to attend St. Paul’s Lutheran in Serbin; vacationers on Padre Island take time from play to attend an open-air mass at St. Andrew’s by the Sea.
Why I wish I Didn’t Have $137 Million
Those luck Arabs, with all that oil! The only problem, as a Saudi finance minister points out, is that oil is all they have.
The Conqueror Worm
All the beautiful kickers gathered in Houston for the premiere of Urban Cowboy. It began at a shopping center and ended in a honk-tonk, and John Travolta had to say he liked it.
The Crime and the Pity
Michael Mewshaw reopens the case of a boyhood friend who murdered his parents’ Rober Shattuck reexamines the story of the Wild Boy.
The Armadillo’s Last Waltz
The imminent demise of Austin’s famed music hall already has Texans singing the Armadillo homesick blues.
The War-horse
The Big Red One is Sam fuller’s war baby; roadie never gets out of its rut; The Tin Drum misses a few beats.
Miscellany
State Secrets
Summer in the city; publisher’s power play; biting the handout that feeds you; will Oscar Wyatt abandon America?
Reporter
Texas Monthly Reporter
Yankee lawyers kick up dust in the Panhandle; maniacal marathon man runs for his life; the redfish that got away; are Dallas’s tax ills contagious?