February 1980
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Features
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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.
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Straight From the Heart
A luscious array of seductive trinkets for wooing your special Valentine.
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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.
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The Crack-Up
You learn one clear and not so very grim lesson by looking death in the face.
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Rock ‘N’ Roll’s Wizard of Oz
How Gordon McLendon stormed Texas with Top 40… da doo ron ron.
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Down in the Depths
The intricate underwater passages and pristine water of Jacob’s Well fascinate drivers. Too often, the fascination proves fatal.
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True Love
Actual photos! In living color! Incontrovertible evidence that kissing is fun!
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Columns
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The Foreign Legion
Dallas Civic Opera is a grand old lady who knows her European opera. But sometimes she gets a little senile.
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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.
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Behind the Lines
Why Houston has the best schools in the state.
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Ramblin’ Rose
Eminent art critic Barbara Rose has assembled an exhibit of paintings of the eighties. Oh, yeah? Where did she get them?
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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.
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Chamber Music
Potty training doesn’t have to be the great bugaboo of raising children.
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Danger: Low Voltage
The Electric Horseman got its wires crossed. Kramer vs. Kramer is an above-average film taken from a below-average novel.
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Reporter
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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.
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Miscellany
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Puzzle
Name that cartoon.
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The Inside Story
Love in Bloom.
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Touts
Fortunes, falcons, and folderol.
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State Secrets
Marlin sidetracks the Missouri-Pacific; school boards wrangle over the handicapped; two Texas Sports magazines slug it out.
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Roar of the Crowd
Onward through the smoke, upward through defeat, backward through time.
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