May 1983

Apr 30, 1983 — By Anne Dingus

Sure it means water. It also means pride.

Apr 30, 1983 — By John Davidson

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

Apr 30, 1983 — By Gary Cartwright

What happened to the old black power radicals in Dallas? Jail, hard times, middle age - and, for Matt Johnson, the losing end of a gun.

Apr 30, 1983 — By Jan Reid

Or, my life as a Texas gardener.

Apr 30, 1983 — By Paul Burka

The new governor’s first hundred days were great theater, but now come taxes.

Apr 30, 1983 — By Jim Atkinson

No Matter where you are, there’s someplace to be nowhere.

Apr 30, 1983 — By Jim Atkinson

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...

Apr 30, 1983 — By John Schwartz

Some colleges help seniors with placement. Others settle for career counseling. For liberal arts majors, the difference is getting a job.

Apr 30, 1983 — By W. L. Taitte

Both Haydn and Stravinsky marked special anniversaries last year, but music lovers got the presents: a shower of fresh new versions of their works.

Apr 30, 1983 — By Michael Ennis

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.

Apr 30, 1983 — By Gregory Curtis

A day in the country.

Apr 30, 1983 — By A. C. Greene

I sang gospel music for God, a bakery, and $6 a week.

Apr 30, 1983 — By James Wolcott

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.

Apr 30, 1983 — By Patricia Sharpe

Of loaves and fishes.

Apr 30, 1983 — By Paul Burka

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.

Apr 30, 1983 — By Texas Monthly

Gun-shy Baptists, isolated inmates, poor doctors.

Apr 30, 1983 — By Texas Monthly

Cell division.

Apr 30, 1983 — By Peter Applebome

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.