The Joy of Kissing
The art of romantic osculation barely survived the jaded seventies. Now it’s time to rediscover the private delights and civic benefits of real kissing.
February 1980
Features
The Crack-Up
You learn one clear and not so very grim lesson by looking death in the face.
Rock ‘N’ Roll’s Wizard of Oz
How Gordon McLendon stormed Texas with Top 40... da doo ron ron.
Down in the Depths
The intricate underwater passages and pristine water of Jacob’s Well fascinate drivers. Too often, the fascination proves fatal.
True Love
Actual photos! In living color! Incontrovertible evidence that kissing is fun!
I Found Romance at the Bijou Theatre
We don’t know how you learned about the birds and the bees, but we’ll bet you learned about love the same way we did: from the movies.
Straight From the Heart
A luscious array of seductive trinkets for wooing your special Valentine.
Miscellany
State Secrets
Marlin sidetracks the Missouri-Pacific; school boards wrangle over the handicapped; two Texas Sports magazines slug it out.
Roar of the Crowd
Onward through the smoke, upward through defeat, backward through time.
Columns
The Foreign Legion
Dallas Civic Opera is a grand old lady who knows her European opera. But sometimes she gets a little senile.
Flipping Out
When big-time gymnastics came to Fort Worth, half the contestants were steely-eyed little girls with the bodies of children and the wills of fanatics.
Lord, Won’t You Buy Me Some Time on TV?
Preachers Robert Schuller and Rex Humbard have zeroed in on the modern way to reach a congregation: electronically.
Ramblin’ Rose
Eminent art critic Barbara Rose has assembled an exhibit of paintings of the eighties. Oh, yeah? Where did she get them?
Chamber Music
Potty training doesn’t have to be the great bugaboo of raising children.
Danger: Low Voltage
The Electric Horseman got its wires crossed. Kramer vs. Kramer is an above-average film taken from a below-average novel.
Reporter
Texas Monthly Reporter
Old what’s-his-name is the most powerful man in Texas; Simone Beck takes her culinary magic show on the road; duck hunters and conservationists battle over a marsh.
