August 1984
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Features
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Texas Primer: The Icehouse
There’s a world of difference between an icehouse and a convenience store.
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Little D
No one will ever hold a political convention in Dallas, Scotland. And that’s only one of the things that make it great.
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Excuse Me, But Where Can a Free-Enterpriser Get a Drink in This Town
Where to find a life-size statue of businessmen shaking hands, the best right-wing burgers, and other landmarks of Republican life.
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Great Moments In Republican History
How Texas became a two=party state in spite of the GOP.
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The Way It’s Going to Be
Turn off the TV. Go fishing. Here’s the inside story of what will happen at the convention, complete with Nancy Reagan’s tacky visit to a bowling alley.
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Unconventional Notes 1984
Isn’t it great that in this big, cold world the Republican party and Dallas have found each other?
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The Marfa Art War
Sculptor Donald Judd had the vision. The Dia Art Foundation had the money. Now they’ve had it with each other.
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The Eccentric Genius of Trammel Crow
He changed the face of Texas by building warehouses that looked like office buildings. Then he built office buildings that looked like warehouses.
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The Fastest Nice Christian Boy in the World
Bobby Morrow was America’s most celebrated Olympic athlete in 1956. Today he wishes he’d never left the starting blocks.
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Columns
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Guv Passes, Teachers Flunk
Mark White has finally earned high marks in lobbying the Legislature.
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Getting Slimed
Ghostbusters is funny but flawed; Streets of Fire is not the place to spend a care-free afternoon; plus three films from abroad.
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“My, Don’t You Sparkle!”
Elyse Robins will sell you that gaudy bauble she’s wearing at dinner for only forty. Thousand, that is.
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A Flop
At this year’s dismal San Antonio Festival, the English National Opera and the Texas productions were the only shows worth seeing.
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Behind the Lines
Nirvana in unofficial Dallas
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Dancing Up a Cliché
Jamboree, a new Joffrey ballet commissioned by the City of San Antonio, features prancing rhinestone cowboys and just plain silly choreography.
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Reporter
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Texas Monthly Reporter
Is Texas shrinking? Are the Kimbell’s spirits sinking? Are Midland and Odessa really linking? Where are Houston’s sports fans drinking?
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Miscellany
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State Secrets
Aggies and UT play beach brawl; Valero’s gas pains; education bureaucracy shake-up; the truth about those Hines rumors.