
January 1975 Issue

Features



The Best Show in Town
Here’s the plot for the legislature’s 140-day run, opening soon.



The Americanization of Texas
Reflections on the disappearance of the independent Texan.

A Place in the Sun
Can Texas still make it as a nation? Can Dolph Briscoe make it as a sheik?
Is Texas Obsolete?
The question is not so hard; it’s the answers that are the problem.
Miscellany
Columns
Dining In
Oil in the Family
In Middle Eastern cuisine, oil is something that’s mixed with chick peas.
Performance
The Plate is the Thing
Dinner theaters offer the roar of the greasepaint and the smell of the kraut.
Film
Talk on the Wild Side
Both human and natural eruptions inspire some disasters, but a quietly poetic film moves the most.