July 1991
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Features
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Texas Movies: Hollywood, TX
How Hollywood sees us—and how Hollywood got us wrong.
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Texas Movies: Texas Videos
Giant is just one of the best movies about Texas.
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Perils of Politics
Ann Richards, Bob Bullock, and Gib Lewis are headed for a crash over the stated budget.
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Texas Movies
When it comes to moviemaking, there’s no place like home.
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Boots and Me
In Texas, the cowboy boot still makes the man.
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The Ghosts of the Freedmen
Dallas is a city that has prided itself on having escaped the hostility of the civil rights years—until now.
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Texas Movies: Tender Foote
Oscar-winning screenwriter Horton Foote continues to capture ordinary people coping with life’s difficulties.
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Texas Movies: The Alamovie
It’s got everything: romance, action, tragedy, coonskin cap.
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Texas Movies: Coming Soon!
The Lone Star State plays a lead role in fourteen new releases.
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Texas Movies: In Character
From wheezy-voiced geezers to yuk-it-up yokels, these actors excel at portraying the stereotypical Texan.
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Columns
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Lights! Camera!
Action abounds in the new slide show at the San Jacinto Monument, but the view of history falls a bit short.
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Going by the Book
Under Jim Hightower, the agriculture department was liberal and loose. Under Rick Perry, it will be corporate and crisp.
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Pomp and Circumstance
Kicked out of the Miss USA contest, two Texas beauty moguls landed on their feet and started their own pagent.
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Reporter
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Parr for the Course
San Diego’s museum is just on box short of telling the whole truth.
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Barroom Brawl
A new contender for the margarita-inventor title turns up in S.A.
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Paint It Van Black
Three galas are all in a night’s work for Houston’s TV party animal.
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Web
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Tomato Flowerpots
4 medium tomatoes 1 small head baby lettuce 32 enoki mushrooms 4 teaspoons chopped fresh chives Herbs and edible flowers as needed (organically grown nasturtiums, roses, violas, alyssum, or bluebonnets) Cut tops of tomatoes off and remove seeds. Arrange baby lettuce, enoki mushrooms, chives, herbs, and edible flowers inside tomatoes.
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Shallot Vinaigrette
1 1/2 shallots, diced 2 garlic cloves, diced 1 teaspoon olive oil 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar 1/2 cup olive oil 2 tablespoons chopped fresh chives Ground black pepper to taste Sauté shallots and garlic in 1 teaspoon olive oil until brown. Add vinegar. Remove from heat, and let cool. Whisk in 1/2 cup olive …
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Cheese Strudel With Smoked Salmon
1/3 cup boursin cheese 1/2 cup softened goat cheese 8 slices smoked salmon 8 fresh basil leaves 4 sheets filo dough, at room temperature 2 tablespoons clarified butter 1/3 cup bread crumbs Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Mix cheeses together. Place salmon slices on waxed paper, then top each slice with 1 basil leaf, followed …
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Miscellany
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Fraud Buster
An Austin investigator clues accountants in on how to sniff out financial shenanigans.
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Uniform Success
Williamson-Dickie of Fort Worth has a blue-collar gold mine in Dickies work clothes.
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When I Was A Cowboy
Photograph by David Levinthal
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State Fare
Four Seasons Hotel, Riverside Cafe, Austin
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