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.
July 1984
Features
Feature
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.
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.
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.
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.
Columns
Software
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.
Movies
Temple of Excess
Indiana Jones bashes us with unthinking cruelty: The Natural is a balk; Sixteen Candlesis lit up with tickling teenage talk.
Jazz
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.
Miscellany
State Secrets
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.
Roar of the Crowd
Roar of the Crowd
Austin’s ins and outs. Lamaze’s pros and cons, the sun’s ups and downs.
