July 1980

Jun 30, 1980 — By John Bloom

A critic’s practiced eye scans the oil giants’ yearly self-portraits.

Jun 30, 1980 — By John Bloom

Reading Big Oil’s annual reports for the truth about profits is a little like drilling for oil in the Baltimore Canyon: you know it’s there, but how deep will you have to go to find it?

Jun 30, 1980 — By Richard West

Four years ago we brought you the Best of Texas. Now we do it again—only better.

Jun 30, 1980 — By Dick Reavis

When black militant Lee Otis Johnson got out of prison his old friends welcomed him back with open arms. Later, some of them wished they hadn’t.

Jun 30, 1980 — By Cyndy Severson

Where else but the Galleria can you find a lavender lace Western dress, a Persian turquoise necklace, and Texas’ most expensive potato chips?

Jun 30, 1980 — By Richard West

Texas’ most glamorous mall has all the comforts of home and then some. So why not move in?

Jun 30, 1980 — By Patricia Sharpe

They’re delightful, they’re delovely, they’re delicious.

Jun 30, 1980 — By Paul Burka

Houston could forfeit the world’s largest convention; Mutscher loses—again; real estate empires totter; the growing ambitions of Bob Bullock.

Jun 30, 1980 — By Texas Monthly

Skyscrapers and front porches, sex on the border and at the table, animals assailed and saved.

Jun 30, 1980 — By Texas Monthly

The rebus factor.

Jun 30, 1980 — By Gregory Curtis

Too many chefs.

Jun 30, 1980 — By W. L. Taitte

Move over, Jett Rink. The West Texas wildcatter may give way to a new breed: the West Texas vintner.

Jun 30, 1980 — By Michael Ennis

Have you ever wondered what Houston and Dallas look like to tourists? A Gray Line Bus is the perfect way to find out.

Jun 30, 1980 — By W. L. Taitte

Two guest conductors in Texas are wizards at their work; three Houston Grand Opera productions are enchanting.

Jun 30, 1980 — By William Martin

Jehovah’s Witnesses in Dallas have their Kingdom on earth; Presbyterians in Midland have taken root on the dusty plain.

Jun 30, 1980 — By James Fallows

Once again our presidential candidates are promising to get the government under control. Here’s why they won’t.

Jun 30, 1980 — By Michael Ennis

Dallas’s David McManaway is an artist of many charms.

Jun 30, 1980 — By Joe Nick Patoski

He came to Austin, Texas, with a guitar on his knee.

Jun 30, 1980 — By Jan Reid

The Guadalupe River is beautiful, inviting, and treacherous.

Jun 30, 1980 — By George Morris

Urban Cowboy falls off its horse; The Shining is Stanley Kubrick’s horror odyssey; The Empire Strikes Back, but it’s no coup; Alfred Hitchcock takes the fortieth step.

Jun 30, 1980 — By Texas Monthly

Weathering a year-long drouth in South Texas; Harlingen’s cute little, uh, body builder; adversaries in the bilingual education battle don’t speak the same language; Bastards from Hell terrorize Houston.