May 1982

Apr 30, 1982 — By Victoria Loe

Multiple-choice question: UT’s Tom Philpott is (a) thes best professor on campus, a selfless reformer, and the victim of an assassination attempt; (b) the worst professor on campus, a publicity hound, and a nut who staged his own shooting.

Apr 30, 1982 — By Texas Monthly

Sounds like a joke, right? Cowboy chic was funny too, until it caught on.

Apr 30, 1982 — By Texas Monthly

How a Houston boy forgot his family’s advice about staying out of politics and became the White House chief of staff.

Apr 30, 1982 — By Tom Walker

Welcome—well, sort of—to San Antonio’s dowager bastion.

Apr 30, 1982 — By Dick Reavis

Anybody can get a job as a security guard. Anybody.

Apr 30, 1982 — By W. L. Taitte

The Pachelbel Canon has gone Hollywood and become the best-selling classical piece in the country. Works by Bach, Mozart, and Wagner are managing to hold their own, too.

Apr 30, 1982 — By Lucius Lomax

Albert Cleage, the self-styled holy patriarch of an ambitious sect, has already won over blacks in Detroit and Atlanta. Now he’s set his sights on Houston.

Apr 30, 1982 — By James Wolcott

Diner recalls the unbeatable glow when the gang was all together. The two friends in My Dinner With Andre find that not seeing eye to eye doesn’t keep them from talking heart to heart.

Apr 30, 1982 — By Suzanne Shelton

The Dallas Ballet’s new director is moving the company from traditional works into daring—and sometimes absurd—modern choreography.

Apr 30, 1982 — By Jim Atkinson

Used correctly, the polygraph can tell whether or not an accused criminal’s claim that he didn’t do it is true. Too bad the police can’t take that to court.

Apr 30, 1982 — By John Bloom

Beyond Greed is the tale of the Hunts’ journey from silver spoon to silver lust. In Sing Me Back Home Merle Haggard takes a quick look at his life (too quick). Billy Clayton has Gavels, Grit & Glory--or so says his biographer.

Apr 30, 1982 — By Paul Burka

A new market for unstable oil; Colorado joins the hate-Texas club; Houston lawyers invade Dallas; a Republican litmus test.

Apr 30, 1982 — By Peter Applebome

A Texas farmer’s bitter harvest; a trucker’s paradise; Louisiana’s tastiest emigrant; NASA’s lunar fringe; the media’s favorite oilman.