May 1980
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Features
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The Beat
Two average, middle-class men risk injury and death patrolling the roughest streets in Dallas. Why do they do it? Because they love the job.
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Town Without Pity
Nuevo Laredo’s red-light district abounds with raw sex and broken dreams.
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Hot Enough for You?
Fire up! Put some spice back in your life with the amazing chile pepper.
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The Good Life
You can still find it in these great small towns.
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Three Gentlemen, One Ghost, and a Skyscraper
The intrigue behind the building of Houston’s Texas Commerce Tower was almost as monumental as the 75-story structure itself.
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Columns
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Striking the Set
The Alley mourns the passing of Nina Vance; outlanders rustle a Texas-trained playwright; in Houston, Stages spends a Night on Bare Mountain and Hank Williams appears at the Tower.
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The Women Who Came to Dinner
Bringing the world’s most controversial feminist sculpture to Texas turned out to be no picnic – but a rare feast for connoisseurs of the outrageous.
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The Star-Crossed Palm of Billy Clayton
This is the question: is it a crime to be politically inept?
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Southern Discomfort
John Huston makes the sinners and saviors of Flannery O’Connor’s fiction eerily real in Wise Blood; Little Miss Marker falls short; Nijinsky falls flat.
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Chief of Staff
A Dallas composer is reviving medieval music in a modern context, while two new classical groups attempt a chamber music renaissance.
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The Late Reign of Francois Huybrechts
When the San Antonio Symphony fired its brilliant and popular young conductor, it produced a cacophony of artistic and political discord.
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Foreign Service
In France you can commune with the angels at Chartres or mingle with the home folks at the American Church in Paris.
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Behind the Lines
Democracy in America
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Angle of Reflection
Wallace Stegner’s love of the West and respect for its history make his works as distinctive as the region that inspired them.
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Animal Magnetism
Horses of different colors leapt from the bright, bold palette of German abstractionist Franz Marc.
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Reporter
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A Dog’s Life
Fighting over a black neighborhood in Austin; corralling the irascible Bull of the Brazos; fussing and feuding with the DAR; monkeying around with the San Antonio Zoo.
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Miscellany
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Touts
Comin’ in on a wing and a mare.
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State Secrets
Plaguing the Panhandle; rebuking the Washington Post; slaughtering the Beeferendum; lusting after the Speakership.
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Roar of the Crowd
Barrio blues, cable cares, coddied eggs.
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The Inside Story
Restless, rustless.
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