October 1983

Sep 30, 1983 — By Jan Reid

Texans are sometimes driven to drink.

Sep 30, 1983 — By marshallarisman

Our new regular feature will reinterpret a much-maligned art form.

Sep 30, 1983 — By Geoff Winningham

When two high schools in Beaumont-one white, one black-were ordered to merge last fall, the outraged town watched as the drama of integration was played out on the football field.

Sep 30, 1983 — By Jim Atkinson

To become more than a perpetual boom town, Dallas needs a foresighted leader and astute politician. Is Starke Taylor the man?

Sep 30, 1983 — By Anne Dingus

Cabeza de Vaca hated it. Georgia O’Keeffe loved it. Seems like Texas leaves no one speechless.

Sep 30, 1983 — By Dick Reavis

Presidio crouches on the border of Mexico and the extreme edge of life in America. There, Spanish is the language, hundred-degree heat is the norm, and the hoe is the crucial tool for scraping out life on the desert.

Sep 30, 1983 — By Nicholas Lemann

It’s a bank-eat-bank world out there.

Sep 30, 1983 — By W. L. Taitte

Is Claudio Arrau the last great Romantic pianist?

Sep 30, 1983 — By Rod Davis

An Arkansas chain has refused to discount small-town buying power. Now it’s ousting local mom-and-pop operations throughout Texas and even giving K Mart a run for its money.

Sep 30, 1983 — By Gregory Curtis

Playing by the rules.

Sep 30, 1983 — By Joseph Nocera

Hurricane Alicia roared through Houston, but somehow it seemed much more real on TV than it did outside my hotel room window.

Sep 30, 1983 — By Dick Reavis

You too can be an author-if you’re willing to publish the book yourself. All you have to have is a stack of paper, a tale to tell, and a couple of thousand bucks.

Sep 30, 1983 — By James Wolcott

In Daniel the hero has to bear the burn of his parents’ treason, while the audience must endure a lot of misery. The Moon in the Gutter is a film in search of eclipse. Education Rita is an enjoyable elective.

Sep 30, 1983 — By Mimi Swartz

Minor emergency centers are fine for those who don’t need much more than a Band-Aid, a throat culture, or a summer-camp physical.

Sep 30, 1983 — By Patricia Sharpe

Bench warmers and good lookers.

Sep 30, 1983 — By Paul Burka

The National Weather Service blows Hurricane Alicia; how the storm will blow insurance rates; Texas congressmen vie for a plum committee seal; a suggestion for spending the spare $2 million.

Sep 30, 1983 — By Texas Monthly

Sep 30, 1983 — By Peter Elkind

Texas becomes a disaster zone; a magazine empire enters the twilight zone; the district attorney’s office in San Antonio is a war zone; problems crop up in the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport flight zone.