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January 1983

  • Features

    • Texas Primer

      Texas Primer: The Dallas Model

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      The sweetheart of the Apparel Mart: where she came from and where she’s going.

    • Feature

      The Making of a Congressman

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      Twelve ran, Mike Andrews won. A saga of ambition, money, power, courage, and the nature of urban politics in Texas.

    • Feature

      The Grand Tour

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      Houston’s the ticket to a trip around the world. In that one city you can now eat, shop, drink and dance across the continents of Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas.

    • Feature

      God’s Happy Hour

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      Every year communities scattered across Texas hold wet-dry elections. Each one pits the forces of fundamentalism against the forces of realism. This is the story of one such election.

    • Feature

      Bum Steer Awards 1983

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      Presenting blazing barbecue, bumbling Bush, blaspheming Baptists, and 118 more of the best of the worst of Texas.

  • Columns

    • Movies

      Nolo Contendere

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      Paul Newman stars as an existential ambulance chaser in The Verdict, a dismal study of law and disorder. Best Friends will alienate you; Heartaches will make you feel good. 48 Hrs. is dirty talk and deja vu.

    • Lifestyle

      A Home Away from Home

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      Thanks to indulgent parents, many of today’s wealthy kids are disdaining dorms for UT-area condos – and forfeiting what may be the best part of a college education.

    • Behind the Lines

      Behind the Lines

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      Negative utopias.

    • Books

      A Monumental Man

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      In The Path to Power Robert Caro brings the Texas of the twenties and thirties to hot, scrubby life, but tries to fit the young Lyndon Johnson into a prefabricated and constricting mold.

    • Art

      The Quixotic Theotokopoulos

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      A spectacular show at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts reexamines the genius of El Greco.

  • Reporter

    • Reporter

      Texas Monthly Reporter

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      Two newspapers in search of nothing in particular; a fish story with a happy ending; an eleven-letter word for “crossword puzzle whiz”; the cutting edge of Corpus Christi’s minority politics.

  • Miscellany