December 1997
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Features
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Lights! Camera! Auction!
All over Texas, smart shoppers are bidding on everything from antiques to airplanes. Join them before the best buys are going, going, gone.
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Searching for Santa
This time of year, Yule find him hanging around East Texas: On lawns and roofs, he’s a Claus célèbre.
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The War on Cedar
It’s unpalatable to cattle, an invader of grasslands, and a water hog. So why can’t I just get rid of it? Because it’s a vegetative Vietnam.
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“I’ve Written Enough Fiction”
So says Larry McMurtry, Texas’ best—and best-known— novelist. But that doesn’t mean he’s giving up literature altogether; in fact, his days are quite booked.
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What’s Black and White And Red-faced All Over?
The University of Texas at Austin, whose paralysis in response to the Hopwood decision ignited racial tensions. And that was before Lino Graglia said a word.
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The Top 10 Foundations
They give to the neediest Texans.
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Raymond Nasher
His artful gift to the city of Dallas ensures his legacy.
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James Michener
He gave millions—and he did it in a novel way.
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Thanks a Million
From the Altshulers to the Zales, the state’s top philanthropists support a range of causes but have at least one thing in common: their selflessness.
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Columns
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Weekly, Strongly
Why are small-town Texas newspapers thriving? Because unlike big-city dailies, they know their readers, and they give them what they want.
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Crime Pays
He hasn’t been able to find his father’s killer, but Austinite David Wheeler’s computer programs are catching lots of other crooks.
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Never Say Die
Can Miller Quarles live forever? The 83-year-old Houstonian hopes so—and he’ll pay $100,000 to anyone who will help him.
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His Perfect World
Growing up in Longview and Texas City, John Lee Hancock dreamed of a life in the movies. Today, he’s one of L.A.’s hottest screenwriters.
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Tortilla Flat
A year after she was forced to file for bankruptcy, Houston’s Ninfa Laurenzo is cooking up a way to save her popular restaurant chain.
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School for Scandal
What does the school board scandal say about Dallas?
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Reporter
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Austin, Storied
Just as Austin is the Dallas of the nineties—a booming cultural icon bordering on cliché—Austin Stories may be the Dallas of the nineties. The MTV sitcom, which debuted this fall, is weekly television’s first credible portrayal of Texas and Texans since J.R. got shot. (Walker, Texas Ranger? Kung fu in cowboy hats. When was the …
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Brown in Front
Ten reasons why former police chief Lee Brown is well positioned to be elected Houston’s first black mayor on December 6: (1) He ran stronger than expected in the November 4 primary, with 42 percent to Rob Mosbacher’s 29 percent. Both were projected to poll in the 30’s. (2) The leader going into a Houston …
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Hog-tied
The Panhandle goes hog wild.
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Television
The newest bilingual TV star.
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Flying Solo
A Houston widower battles TWA.
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The Wrong Man
George W. Bush pardoned convicted rapist Kevin Byrd after DNA evidence proved he was the wrong man. How did he get sent to prison in the first place?
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We and Mrs. Jones
Paula Jones and Texas.
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CD and Book Reviews
Hot CDs Sure, you can waltz across Texas to the Cornell Hurd Band’s Texas Fruit Shack (Behemoth), but you can also shuffle, two-step, boogie, and maybe even jitterbug. Joined by guest stars like Johnny Bush, Austinite Hurd fronts a versatile group that puts an authoritative stamp on the full run of Lone Star styles. His …
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Ara Celi
“When I was little,” Ara Celi says, “I used to watch TV and ask, ‘How do you get on there?’” At 19 the El Paso native set out for Hollywood to answer that question; once there, she quickly learned the three most important words in show business: audition, audition, audition. She found steady work on …
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Tommy Tune
Tommy Tune I started dancing when I was five, after [Houston dance teacher] Emmamae Horn visited my school and asked my parents if I could enroll in her dance class. It must have run in the family, though, because my parents were great dancers too. When I was about nine, I remember watching them dance …
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Web
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Hot Chocolate Cake
Pistachio and Eggnog Milk Sauce 1/2 cup shelled pistachios 4 medium egg yolks 1/2 cup sugar (less if using eggnog, to taste) 1/2 quart whipping cream or eggnog 1 quart milk 1 vanilla bean, split Roast pistachios at 350 degrees for 10 minutes, chop, and cool. Whisk egg yolks and sugar in a nonreactive bowl. …
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Dominique de Menil Remembered
Dominique de Menil—1908-1997
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Miscellany
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Best Western
Why we love West Texas; defending the death penalty.
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Howard Hughes
Why was Howard Hughes’s plane nicknamed the Spruce Goose?
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Her Home Page Is Her Castle
“I love lists,” says Ann Castle, who got into the listmaking business last year when the online magazine Slate asked her for a roundup of the nation’s biggest givers. “Because of the Slate list, lots of people have contacted me about doing this in their state,” she says, though she hadn’t done another list until …
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State Fare
How did the chefs at Dallas’ French Room whip up such a delicious cake? Choc it up to creativity.
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