December 1987
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Features
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The Trip to Paradise
Small Texas towns live either in our memory or in our imagination. The ones with the storybook names live in both.
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All Choked Up
A ground war at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport is turning innocent passengers into anxious bystanders.
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Most Likely to Succeed
Seven outstanding young Texas design students translate their visions of fairy tales, Greek goddesses, and Catholic rituals into fashion statements.
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Growing Up With George and Martha
By turning two tiny dots into two huge hippos, James Marshall made an indelible mark on children’s literature, and little people laughed happily ever after.
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Texas Primer: The Balcones Escarpment
The blackland prairie of the old South meets the wide-open spaces of the wild West at Texas’ great geologic divide.
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This Can’t Be Happening to Me
From the look on my doctor’s face, I knew the results of the biopsy. The lump in my breast was cancer.
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Power
From H. Ross Perot to the people who will run Texas in the nineties, from couples with clout to the Brownwood Mafia, we present the most complete guide to power in Texas ever compiled.
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Columns
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Behind the Lines
The World War I theory of law.
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Poison Pen
Dallas’ drive-in film critic Joe Bob Briggs made us laugh at bad movies. When we became the butt of the joke, it wasn’t funny anymore.
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Lost Horizons
An exhibit at Fort Worth’s Amon Carter Museum contends that before the cowboy became America’s hero, Indians and mountain men were the icons of a vanishing frontier.
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One Man, One Oat
Twenty years ago the Furry Freak Brothers, Dealer McDope, and Oat Willie were Austin’s underground heroes. A mild-mannered ex-hippie reveals how he lived the legend.
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That’s Entertainment
The Houston Grand Opera was out to impress, with its new house and three ambitious productions in one week, but what it proved best was just how enjoyable this brand of theater can be.
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Go East, Young Man
Texas developers are snapping up land, putting together deals, and building like crazy—in Washington, D.C.
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Domain Supplement
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Roasted Acorn Squash Soup
For a winter night’s meal, making a pot of roasted acorn squash soup will warm your kitchen and your bones.
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Sweet Potato and Tortilla Cake
From “What’s Good For the Goose”
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Scallop Saute With Winter Vegetables
From “Quick Cuisine: Winter’s Bounty”
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Baked Chocolate-and-Hazelnut Mousse
From “Quick Cuisine: Winter’s Bounty”
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Whiskey Sauce
1 cup sugar 1 cup heavy cream 1 cinnamon stick of dash of ground cinnamon 1 tablespoon unsalted butter 1/2 teaspoon cornstarch 1/4 cup water 1 tablespoon bourbon Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In large bowl, cream sugar and butter. Mix in eggs, cream, cinnamon, vanilla, and raisins. Pour mixture into 1 3/4-inch-deep, 9-inch-square pan. …
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Quick Cuisine: Winter’s Bounty
Specialties of the season make for a chil-proof midwinter meal.
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Zinfandel Mole Sauce
From “What’s Good For the Goose”
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What’s Good For the Goose
Most recipes for game birds amount to long, slow overkill. Only quick, hot cooking ensures that red-meat birds retain their rich flavor.
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A Grande Finale
A Southern sweet lightens up to become an airy cloud of home confection.
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Bread Pudding Souffle
Bread Pudding Soufflé With Whiskey sauce 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup butter (1 stick), softened 5 eggs, beaten 1 pint heavy cream Dash of cinnamon 1 tablespoon vanilla 1/4 cup raisins 12 slices fresh of stale French bread, each 1 inch thick Soufflé 6 eggs, separated 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1/2 cup confectioners’ sugar Whiskey …
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Reporter
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Texas Monthly Reporter
A black and gamy Monday; Wick Allison as low-profile Buckley; heartthrobs Quaid and Swayze; fine food for feedlots; Augie’s Gringo Lingo.
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Miscellany
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State Secrets
Halloween handouts for a savings and loan; why the Texaco-Pennzoil decision was predictable; bad news for judicial reform; UT and A&M head south; the King Ranch contemplates a road.
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Roar of the Crowd
Methodist misadventures, political predicaments, utopian unrest.
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The National Tour of Texas
In the Mesquite Kingdom, where the coyotes howl, the wind blows free at the MacArthur Academy of Freedom, an honest face gets you a phone and immigration throws mariachi parties.
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