May 1983 Issue
Features
The Bar Bar
It’s a noble institution, especially if you can master all its subtle skills: not being there, the second call, holding forth, and another thing...

Larger Than Life
Tom Lea, the grand old man of Texas painting, grew up among giants. No wonder he always used a big canvas.


Mark White’s Coming-Out Party
The new governor’s first hundred days were great theater, but now come taxes.
Columns
Happy Birthday, Franz and Igor
Both Haydn and Stravinsky marked special anniversaries last year, but music lovers got the presents: a shower of fresh new versions of their works.
A Monument to Making It
It’s a Xanadu of condos, restaurants, gardens, and gyms, a high-tech haven that can outritz nearby Dallas. It’s Las Colinas, a home for corporations that appreciate the finer things in life.
Double Jeopardy
What’s Exposed is the worlds of fashion and terrorism and the curves of Nastassia Kinski. Blue Thunder is nothing but noise; Tender Mercies, on the other hand, is practically a silent.
Man Over Mortarboard
Some colleges help seniors with placement. Others settle for career counseling. For liberal arts majors, the difference is getting a job.
Miscellany
State Secrets
TV’s path to riches for Robert Caro’s The Path to Power; a big Texas howdy to PCBs; Reagan and Castro’s map wars; another prison reform idea turns sour.
Reporter
Texas Monthly Reporter
Taking stock of the Dallas mayoral election; defrocking the Legislature’s worst bills; buying stocks in the Trans-Pecos; unlocking the mysteries of the Arklatex; rocking the boat in Odessa.