December 1983
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Features
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Cosmic Plowboy
Agriculture commissioner Jim Hightower discovered that he could help the little guy by becoming one of the big boys.
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The Texas Food Manifesto
Fie on the cilantro fad, greaseless barbecue, and indiscriminate mesquite-grilling. Let’s hear it for Frito pie, catfish plates, and other gems of Texas’ true cuisine
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Texas Primer: Christmas on the Range
Yes, Virginia Sue, Texas really does have its own holiday traditions.
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Pancho Villa’s Last Gasp
In death as in life, the Mexican revolutionary is still causing trouble. This time the border skirmish is over his death mask.
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Grande Dame of the Gulf
She may be past her prime, but Galveston still clings to her aristocratic heritage and her precarious place on the sand.
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Pearl Harbor Christmas
December 1941 in Clarksville was a time to celebrate peace on earth amid the rumblings of war.
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Grande Dame of the Gulf
She may be past her prime, but Galveston still clings to her aristocratic heritage and her precarious place on the sand.
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Columns
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Another Pilgrim’s Progress
The last book by native Texan William Goyen, Arcadio is a weird and wonderful fable about a search for self-acceptance and peace.
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Secrets of a Deep, Dark Game
Listen up, you Monday morning quarterbacks. How much do you really know about the classic triple option?
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Terminal Endearment
Terms of Endearment features a Houston setting but also drab cinematography and cramped direction. The sickening Star 80 goes too far; the impressionistic Rumble Fish reaches too high.
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The Proof Is in the Piano
Fabled Texas pianist Peck Kelley appears, at last, on a gold mine of an album. There’s lodes more with Red Garland, Pete Petersen, and other jazz whizzes.
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The Courage of Their Compositions
These days the Houston Symphony Orchestra isn’t playing the same old thing. Conductor Sergiu Comissiona battles boredom by playing brand-new works and little-heard older ones.
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Good Christian Pageant Fans, Rejoice
Houston’s First Baptist Church wants to be number one in Texas, and an eye-popping Christmas spectacle is one way it beckons the faithful.
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Behind the Lines
Dropping the aristocratic burden.
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Reporter
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Texas Monthly Reporter
Masons in trouble; Wally in wonderland; vice in Amarillo; vitamins in Mount Pleasant; Czechs in print.
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Miscellany
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Touts
The halls are alive with the sound of music.
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State Secrets
More trouble ahead for Jim Mattox; oil pipeline for sale—cheap; the EPA gets dumped over toxic dumping; raindrops on GTE’s head at Braniff Place.
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Roar of the Crowd
Banks play domino, Presidio plays it cool, Beaumont plays to win.
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Puzzle
Perforations.
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