July 1984
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Features
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Texas Primer: The Blue Law
On Sunday it is legal to buy beer but not baby bottles, screws but not screwdrivers, disposable diapers but not cloth ones. No place but Texas.
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Western Art: Cat Dog Man
An interpretation of a classic genre.
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Take This Job and Love It
Sandi Barton works from 8:30 to 5 as a secretary in a downtown Dallas office. She knows a lot of women look down on her job, but it suits her just fine.
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The Man in the Black Hat, Part Two
With the help of a friendly banker and some friendlier politicians, Clinton Manges conquered might Mobil Oil and saved his empire. But not for long—it’s in jeopardy again.
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The Man Who Dreamed Up Luckenbach
Hondo Crouch went from being a champion athlete to being the sad clown of Texas’s fun-and-games capital.
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Dining Out is Fun
If mother doesn’t make food like she used to, there are still a few great cafes in Texas that will.
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Columns
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A Byte of Life
The Flight Simulator and Heroism in the Modern Age are realistic new computer games that offer a wonderful mix of fantasy and reality; Free Enterprise is too simplistic to be much fun.
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Temple of Excess
Indiana Jones bashes us with unthinking cruelty: The Natural is a balk; Sixteen Candlesis lit up with tickling teenage talk.
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Getting Mellow
In the sixties the fee-jazz movement produced music that was defiantly experimental, and the same artists are still playing some of the most stimulating jazz around.
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Behind the Lines
Plugging in and Plugging Along
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Reporter
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Texas Monthly Reporter
A meditation on the radioactive peril in Juarez.
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Miscellany
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Touts
Summertime, summertime, sum-sum-summertime.
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State Secrets
Presenting the Big Bend Condos and Solitario Safari; Mexico finds out what it feels like to have an immigrant problem; Oscar Wyatt and Clinton Manges gird for battle; inside report from the special session.
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Roar of the Crowd
Austin’s ins and outs. Lamaze’s pros and cons, the sun’s ups and downs.
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Puzzle
The acid syndrome.
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