January 1992
Features
A critical appraisal of a local phenomenon by the ultimate insider.
Troubled boys at this Baptist youth home had to eat soap if they said the wrong thing. And that was one of the milder punishments.
When her charitable foundation collapsed amid allegations of mismanagement, the Dallas socialite did the unthinkable: She started a new one.
From Good Bull: More Aggie Escapades, by John Hoyle: One of the no-no’s in the Corps is to have a member of the opposite sex in your dorm room at the wrong hours. One night, a group of Fish saw a senior sneaking a young woman into his room. The…
Chicken Ranch brother souvenirs, including 1992 calendars with photos of prostitutes in Old West costumes, available for $14.95 from CRI Marketing in Los Angeles. UT Texas Longhorns cologne, based on Texas cedarwood oil, sold for $24 (1.7 ounces) by Texarome of Leakey. Savings and loan scandal trading cards, featuring Neil…
Rod Canion Houston-based Compaq Computer Corporation, which he co-founded, fired him as president Dallas CBS canceled the series after a thirteen-year run that featured the mythic evil of J. R. Ewing. Gib Lewis The five-term Speaker of the House was indicted on misdemeanor ethics charges. Danny Faulkner…
A year of alternative armadillos, bogus bills, contraband condoms, defecting drivers, eventful endorsements, futile floss, gorgeous golfers, humongous hair, imploding implants, jet joyrides, Kansas City klunkers, licentious libraries, mayoral Mafiosi, N-vaded N-dians, outlaw odors, phighting physicists, queasy quesadillas, royal relatives, shunned Schwarzkopf, tainted teachers, underworld underwear, verbose vasectomies, welfare Willies, X-onerated X-posers, yeggs’ yogi, and zealous Zero Population Growth.
Oliver North and H. Ross PerotNorth said that Perot asked him to shield President Reagan from the Iran-contra scandal. Perot said he didn’t—and he had a tape recording to back himself up. Jim Mattox and Clayton WilliamsMattox lost to Ann Richards in the Democratic primary. Williams lost to…
Where is Alfred Hitchcock When You Need Him?The Texas Department of Agriculture fined a crop duster in Wilbarger County $1,250 for spraying pesticide on a family of four in a pickup truck. Drive Friendly—I’m Uninsured.To avoid Texas insurance and safety standards, at least two thousand drivers from El…
A new collection of Keith Carter’s photographs captures the magical mojo of East Texas.
Miscellany
Texas’ celebrated son Robert Rauschenberg joined the ranks of more than 150 American artists—from Robert Motherwell and Lee Krasner to Keith Haring and Sherry Levine—who have posed for the classic portraits of Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. The photographer, working in the past few years with a huge studio camera that accommodates 24-…
As fans of the CBS Evening News and Dan Rather, we believe that Robert Draper’s “Dan Rather Is a Good Ol’ Boy” [TM, November 1991] is a fair and unbiased account. It is a mystery to us that Mr. Rather provokes such controversy. He seems to make every…
Reporter
If the National Coalition of Free Men has its way, man-bashing won’t go unprotested.
Candelaria’s only well supplied free water to all until the EPA weighed in.
Gary Bledsoe, the new head of the Texas NAACP, doesn’t dodge the tough questions.
Houston’s Young Turk music producers have cut a new groove in the record industry.
Columns
Today, TGI Friday’s is sedate, but twenty years ago this month, the place started the singles era in Dallas.
Conventional wisdom about education holds that local control, a strong principal, and active, involved parents are crucial ingredients in the mix that makes a successful school. This wisdom is so pervasive that the Legislature has made local control, in the form of “site-based decision making,” a legal requirement in Texas…
“Just how hard can it be to build a playground?” I asked. The answer: Harder than anything I’ve ever tried before.
A Dallas lawyer is urging his colleagues to put rhyme and reason back into legal writing—by using plain old English.
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