January 1982

Jan 1, 1982 — By Paul Burka

Whenever you buy or sell a house, hundreds of dollars of your money goes for something called title insurance. Title insurance is a great deal—for the title company.

Jan 1, 1982 — By Dick Reavis

Supplicants in the Valley worship at the shrine of faith healer Don Pedrito Jaramillo, more powerful than he was in life.

Jan 1, 1982 — By Jim Atkinson

Rusty Hardin is a prosecutor. Most of the time, his job is to put people in jail. This time, he wants a man dead.

Jan 1, 1982 — By Texas Monthly

In which we salute the folks who made Texas the bizarre, flagrant, preposterous, funny, and endearing place it was last year.

Jan 1, 1982 — By Patricia Sharpe

Between a rock and an art place.

Jan 1, 1982 — By Texas Monthly

Rolling stock.

Jan 1, 1982 — By Paul Burka

Poor Bunker Hunt; hogging the airwaves; why the establishment likes Hightower; worries in the Hobby camp.

Jan 1, 1982 — By Texas Monthly

Hearing the call of the Word, the wild, and the hogs.

Jan 1, 1982 — By Gregory Curtis

The perfect city.

Jan 1, 1982 — By douglasharlan

Time was when Texas Republicans had to stand united. But now their party's in power and there's rivalry in the ranks.

Jan 1, 1982 — By James Wolcott

Screen greats Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn embarrass themsevles in the namby-pamby On Golden Pond. Ragtime is a clinker. Absence of Malice has prescence--Paul Newman's.

Jan 1, 1982 — By William Martin

Potlicking in Houston churches is nothing new for a lot of black Baptist preachers. It just comes with the territory.

Jan 1, 1982 — By Michael Ennis

An evocative American portrait is one of 75 masterpieces from the Phillips Collection now on display in Dallas. A photographic exhibit in Austin on family life covered just about everything but the family.

Jan 1, 1982 — By Peter Applebome

Football fever in Wink; political prognostication in Houston; gustatory grotesquerie in Austin; building bonanza in Fort Worth.