September 1983
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Features
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Texas Primer: Caprock
Across the Panhandle stretches a thin red line that divides doughty plains dwellers from Texas’ lesser changed.
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Passing the Bucks
Football recruiting makes the NCAA see red, but SMU sees orange.
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Johnson & Johnson
In a glass-and-steel world of Houston skyscrapers, there was nothing like an art deco obelisk or a pink Gothic cathedral until architect Philip Johnson.
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Texas, A Long, Long, Long, Long, Time Ago
When armadillos weighed three tons and the long horns were on dinosaurs.
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Panorama Camera
With their 350-degree camera, photographers recorded Houston in the early 1900’s. Half a century later two young photographers found the camera the same but Houston vastly changed.
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Pros at Cons
Everything is bigger in Texas, including the scams.
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The Big Con
From his early days in Big Spring, Eugene Anderson wasn’t what he seemed; neither was the mysterious element he later claimed turned water into fuel.
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Columns
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Blues at His Fingertips
Bluesman Stevie Ray Vaughan showcases his powerhouse guitar on a nationally released record. Also on new LPs are fellow Texans, from country king George Jones to Austin cutups the Big Boys.
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Squeaky Wheels
Independent oilmen are still for free enterprise, but these days they also expect a little favoritism from Uncle Sam.
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History’s Nebbish
The tale of schlemiels schlemiel, Zelig is as funny, endearing, and slight as Woody Allen himself. Staying Alive is suicidal. The quick Grey Fox jumps nimbly the pitfalls of making a western.
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Love in the Slammer
Sometimes women fall in love with men behind bars, but once the bars disappear, the love itself may become the prison.
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A Chamber of Music
Jim Cartwright has a classic case of obsession-he owns thousands of records. Under Sung Kwak the Austin Symphony has gone from mediocre to memorable.
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Behind the Lines
The burning cactus.
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Catcher of the Awry
Frederick Barthelme’s Moon Deluxe is a collection of cockeyed tales about stucco camels, supermarket sec and other modern curiosities. In Short Circuit Michael Mewshaw finds fault with the nasty world of professional tennis. The urban vignettes of Laura Furman’s Watch Time Fly range from skillful to so-so.
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Reporter
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Texas Monthly Reporter
Texas highways show their age; Houston punks show their colors; foster parents show they care; A&M shows its macaws; cattle ranchers show their breeding.
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Miscellany
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Touts
This one’s a real sleeper.
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State Secrets
It’s Post time in the race to take over Houston’s morning newspaper, and here are the odds; Doctor Death takes a holiday in Dallas; a bank merger causes frowns at Fulbright & Jaworski; does Jim Mattox have a future?
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