Rags to Riches
When buyers and sellers converge on Dallas’s Apparel Mart for a week-long orgy of fashionable commerce, high style and discriminating taste confront the cold reality of the bottom line.
January 1981
Features
King of the Mountain
Clements is ready for the Legislature, but is the Legislature ready for him?
Laying Down the Law
That’s what the Legislature is here to do, and unless we’re lucky, it just may.
Columns
The Church of What’s Happening
You’ll really groove on the teachings of the Today Church in Dallas; tiny Keene is a town for Seventy-day Adventists-all week long.
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Lighting a stage for an operatic performance isn’t just a matter of flipping a switch.
Behind the Purple Page
Texas writers of historical romances spice up the old boy- meets-girl plot with more than a pinch of passion.
See How She runs
Diane von Furstenberg is a one-woman event, from her DVF glasses to her purple lizard pumps.
The Contender
Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull is full of fancy footwork, but it doesn’t land many solid hits. Jack Lemmon deserves Tribute; The Competition is a winning film.
Grade F
The Texas education Agency’s recent report on teacher competency doesn’t make the grade.
High Texana
Alan’s Texas Cafe in Austin is good eats with Alan; Don’s in Houston has Cajun food worth ragin’ about.
Miscellany
State Secrets
Discount medicine needles doctors; open season on Democrats; meanwhile, back at Southfork; Dallas blacks are fed up—with busing.
Reporter
Texas Monthly Reporter
Rounding up rustlers in North Texas; shaping up mind and body at the Houstonian; chalking up a victory against infant deaths in the Valley.
