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January 1985

  • Features

    • Texas Primer

      Texas Primer: The Sticker Bur

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      After encountering this small brown barb, the wise Texas child learns to pick and choose his fights with the landscape.

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      Western Art: Drugstore Cowboy

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      An interpretation of a classic genre.

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      “Take Nothing and Make Something”

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      Working alone at his home in East Texas, Fox Harris is divinely inspired to create towering, fanciful sculptures out of junk.

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      A Grand Canyon

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      In 1541 Coronado and his troops stumbled upon a huge canyon in the midst of grassy plains and gazed upon it with awe. Journeying down into Palo Duro Canyon on mules 443 years later, I began to understand why.

    • Feature

      Between Two Worlds

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      Jay Hamon spent much of his life caught between the Dallas society world of his parents and the world of the black woman with whom he fell in love. He dies without ever resolving his dilemma.

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      Towers of Power

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      So. Ralph Sampson listens to Grover Washington and Akeem Olajuwon craves Chinese food. Now you know.

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      1985 Bum Steer Awards

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      A year of arousing art, bumbling bush, coerced canines, deranged Dallas, eureka! Eureste, freeway fantasy, groping Germans, hurtling helicopters, idiotic Irving, and jocose jelly beans.

  • Columns

    • Movies

      Star Dreck

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      2010: a space travesty; Dune gets mired in pomp and slime; A Soldier’s Story is a murder mystery with soul; even Streep and De Niro can’t save Falling in Love; The Brother from Another Planet is woozily morose.

    • Jazz

      Heard Any Good Live Jazz Lately?

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      A purist’s guide to the night spots of Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Austin.

    • Classical Music

      Swell Sonatas

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      Twenty picks for the best classical recording of 1984.

    • Books

      Mexico Refried

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      A book on Mexico by New York Times correspondent Alan Riding is a little more than a rehash of recent history.

    • Architecture

      Strident Whimsy

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      Arquitectonica is trying to sell Texans on gimmicky forms, bright colors, and high-tech materials in the name of avant-garde.

  • Reporter

    • Reporter

      Texas Monthly Reporter

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      Law and order in Colorado City; winning and losing with the Dallas Diamonds; bargains and hassles on People Express; broiling and sweating in pursuit of mesquite chic.

  • Miscellany

    • State Secrets

      State Secrets

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      To oilmen, intangible means untouchable; to UT, untouchable means Fred Akers; a legal courtship sinks; a billboard solution may float.