December 1989
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Features
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Teardown
Houston’s West University area was just a quiet, unpretentious neighborhood until the bulldozers moved in. Now everyone’s trying to keep up with the Georgians.
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Liz and Me
Memories of the filming of Giant in Marfa, as recalled by a fan who had the best seat in the house.
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A Fool and His Money
Why we are so soon parted.
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Get Along, Little Doggies
Well-shod supermodel Fay Ray steps out in true Texas style.
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The All-American Crooks
Football players at Dallas’ Carter High had it all: god futures, a state championship, and the feeling that they could do no wrong. The trouble was, their favorite hobbies were guns and holdups.
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Wild Forever
Once the private preserve of an oil executive, the 300,000-acre Bid Bend Ranch, with all its desert grandeur, has now entered the public domain. Photography by Mark Klett
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Columns
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Black to Basics
Newcomer of the year Clint Black plays tributes to early country music—with an unintentional Texas twist.
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Texas and the new decade.
Backward and forward.
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Continental Drift
Five beautifully produced books explore the Americas, from anonymous folk art to the great muralists, from revolutionary heroes to a Texas ranching patriarch.
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Images at War
A Fort Worth exhibit of scenes from the Mexican War shows that fanciful lithographs outgunned the realism of nascent photography.
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Reporter
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Irreconcilable Differences
An airport spat rekindles the Dallas-Fort Worth feud; South Plains farmers cotton to a colorful high-fiber crop; Houston artists collaborate to wish everyone Feliz Navidad.
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Miscellany
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Courting Disaster
Bill Clements and the courts head for a showdown over school finance; the boom in engineering may be over; wisdom from the Whitmire win.
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Voices of East Texas
Remembering a special place; rethinking the political process; working toward a humane society.
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