June 1988
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Features
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The Self-Destruction of Lance Lalor
Houston’s city controller prided himself on being the most scrupulously honest politician in town. So why did he sign his name to someone else credit card?
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Extra! Extra!
In which the author becomes a star—for three seconds.
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Texas Primer: Juneteenth
It began in 1865 as a joyous celebration of emancipation. Today young black Texans find the holiday overshadowed by more immediate concerns.
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Better TED Than Dead
Shrimp boats are a-comin’, and their nets are killing endangered sea turtles.
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Swimming to Oblivion
Marine scientists have struggled for ten years to establish a new colony of ridley sea turtles on South Padre Islands. All their efforts may have been in vain.
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Caught in the Middle
On the eve of the Mexican elections, the country’s dwindling middle class prefers fatalism o Fabianism.
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Hope and Glory
A salute to Texas athletes trying young; seven hearts set on the Summer Olympics.
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Boone Pickens and the Roach Motel
The controversial home of an embattled college president is a symbol of a Panhandle brawl full of conspiracies.
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The Making of Lonesome Dove
You can lead a herd to water, but can you make a miniseries faithful to Larry McMurtry’s Texas classic?
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Columns
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Killer Whale Hooks City!
San Antonio is shameless over Shamu and Sea World.
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Behind the Lines
A separate peace.
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Character Flaw
A tour of the Texas psyche, with guides like Sam Houston, Katherine Anne Porter, and John Henry Faulk; a novel of adolescence addresses carnal knowledge and fundamentalist religion.
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Unplanned Obsolescence
In a Houston retrospective, the art of Julian Schnabel appears to be aging prematurely.
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Reporter
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Texas Monthly Reporter
The bash of the century in Austin; new heights for an Alamo author; slouching toward Jerusalem, Texas; plus designer tomatoes, East Texas ingenuity, and Amazing Car #8.
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Miscellany
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State Secrets
Why Continental isn’t in Love (Field); Clinton Manges takes the horns by the Bullock; tort reform and the good bidness climate; logic in advertising.
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Roar of the Crowd
Ten years old and burning out; totally nice competition; a trip work taking—once.
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