February 1980

Feb 1, 1980 — By John Bloom

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.

Feb 1, 1980 — By Dick Reavis

You learn one clear and not so very grim lesson by looking death in the face.

Feb 1, 1980 — By Joe Nick Patoski

How Gordon McLendon stormed Texas with Top 40... da doo ron ron.

Feb 1, 1980 — By Stephen Harrigan

The intricate underwater passages and pristine water of Jacob’s Well fascinate drivers. Too often, the fascination proves fatal.

Feb 1, 1980 — By Janice Rubin

Actual photos! In living color! Incontrovertible evidence that kissing is fun!

Feb 1, 1980 — By Louis Black

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.

Feb 1, 1980 — By Cyndy Severson

A luscious array of seductive trinkets for wooing your special Valentine.

Feb 1, 1980 — By Patricia Sharpe

Fortunes, falcons, and folderol.

Feb 1, 1980 — By Paul Burka

Marlin sidetracks the Missouri-Pacific; school boards wrangle over the handicapped; two Texas Sports magazines slug it out.

Feb 1, 1980 — By Texas Monthly

Onward through the smoke, upward through defeat, backward through time.

Feb 1, 1980 — By Texas Monthly

Name that cartoon.

Feb 1, 1980 — By Gregory Curtis

Love in Bloom.

Feb 1, 1980 — By W. L. Taitte

Dallas Civic Opera is a grand old lady who knows her European opera. But sometimes she gets a little senile.

Feb 1, 1980 — By Michael Ennis

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.

Feb 1, 1980 — By William Martin

Preachers Robert Schuller and Rex Humbard have zeroed in on the modern way to reach a congregation: electronically.

Feb 1, 1980 — By William Broyles

Why Houston has the best schools in the state.

Feb 1, 1980 — By Michael Ennis

Eminent art critic Barbara Rose has assembled an exhibit of paintings of the eighties. Oh, yeah? Where did she get them?

Feb 1, 1980 — By Judy Benson

Potty training doesn’t have to be the great bugaboo of raising children.

Feb 1, 1980 — By George Morris

The Electric Horseman got its wires crossed. Kramer vs. Kramer is an above-average film taken from a below-average novel.

Feb 1, 1980 — By Texas Monthly

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.