January 1982
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Features
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Trust Me, Just Sign Here.
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.
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The Saint of Falfurrias
Supplicants in the Valley worship at the shrine of faith healer Don Pedrito Jaramillo, more powerful than he was in life.
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The Lord’s Work
Rusty Hardin is a prosecutor. Most of the time, his job is to put people in jail. This time, he wants a man dead.
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Bum Steer Awards 1982
In which we salute the folks who made Texas the bizarre, flagrant, preposterous, funny, and endearing place it was last year.
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Columns
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Behind the Lines
The perfect city.
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The Party’s Over
Time was when Texas Republicans had to stand united. But now their party’s in power and there’s rivalry in the ranks.
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Big Frogs, Small Pond
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.
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Stumpers in the Pulpit
Potlicking in Houston churches is nothing new for a lot of black Baptist preachers. It just comes with the territory.
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Miss Van Buren Comes To Texas
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.
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Reporter
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Texas Monthly Reporter
Football fever in Wink; political prognostication in Houston; gustatory grotesquerie in Austin; building bonanza in Fort Worth.
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Miscellany
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Touts
Between a rock and an art place.
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Puzzle
Rolling stock.
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State Secrets
Poor Bunker Hunt; hogging the airwaves; why the establishment likes Hightower; worries in the Hobby camp.
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Roar of the Crowd
Hearing the call of the Word, the wild, and the hogs.
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