December 1984

Features
Honky-tonks: how to get in, how to get out.
If marriage means commitment and trust, that’s fine. If it means never dancing in front of a Billy Idol video again, that’s no so fine.
It’s not quite a lie and not quite the truth. It’s a patriotic duty.

For a perfectly decorated tree, call Tom Osborn. But only if money is no object.
Now that alligators aren’t endangered, they’re game. So are Texas hunters.
Miscellany
A new law takes the driving out of DWI; a new battle brews on the Texas Supreme Court; Exxon gets rid of an old burden; so does Clinton Manges.
Columns
Three Texas Trivia games separate Lone Star zealots from ordinary believers.
After winning seven straight state basketball championships, the Snook Bluejays are learning that success has a flip side.
Selling crime self-help devices has become a booming business. But do any of these gadgets really make us safer?
The Word Processor reveals the wisdom of the Good Book with a few keystrokes.
Frederick Barthelme’s first novel, Second Marriage, is a wondrous tale of love and absurdity set in the Gulf Coast suburbs.
Body Double settles for facile thrills; Comfort and Joy offers moments of magical bliss; The Little Drummer Girl is off-pitch.
Reporter
Kung’s underground hideaway; Dallas’ Cadillac wars; the Panhandle’s art terrorists; Houston’s poet-laureate; Austin’s airport quandary.