July 1980
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Features
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The Best Strikes Back
Four years ago we brought you the Best of Texas. Now we do it again—only better.
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Why I Turned In Lee Otis Johnson
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.
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Oh, You Beautiful Mall
Where else but the Galleria can you find a lavender lace Western dress, a Persian turquoise necklace, and Texas’ most expensive potato chips?
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My Home, the Galleria
Texas’ most glamorous mall has all the comforts of home and then some. So why not move in?
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Oil Slicks
A critic’s practiced eye scans the oil giants’ yearly self-portraits.
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Profits? What Profits?
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?
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Columns
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And Now, On Your Left…
Have you ever wondered what Houston and Dallas look like to tourists? A Gray Line Bus is the perfect way to find out.
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The Ballad of Dan Del Santo
He came to Austin, Texas, with a guitar on his knee.
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Falls Alarm
The Guadalupe River is beautiful, inviting, and treacherous.
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City Kicker
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.
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Grape Days Coming
Move over, Jett Rink. The West Texas wildcatter may give way to a new breed: the West Texas vintner.
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Magic Wands
Two guest conductors in Texas are wizards at their work; three Houston Grand Opera productions are enchanting.
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Jehovah’s Brigade, Midland’s Regulars
Jehovah’s Witnesses in Dallas have their Kingdom on earth; Presbyterians in Midland have taken root on the dusty plain.
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Behind the Lines
Once again our presidential candidates are promising to get the government under control. Here’s why they won’t.
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Got My Jomo Workin’
Dallas’s David McManaway is an artist of many charms.
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Reporter
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Texas Monthly Reporter
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.
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Miscellany
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Touts
They’re delightful, they’re delovely, they’re delicious.
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State Secrets
Houston could forfeit the world’s largest convention; Mutscher loses—again; real estate empires totter; the growing ambitions of Bob Bullock.
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Roar of the Crowd
Skyscrapers and front porches, sex on the border and at the table, animals assailed and saved.
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Puzzle
The rebus factor.
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The Inside Story
Too many chefs.
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