September 1984

Aug 31, 1984 — By Jim Atkinson

Why are we crazy for Cadillacs, silly for Suburbans, passionate about pickups? Because Texans love their cars, that’s why.

Aug 31, 1984 — By Paul Burka

In 1883 the University of Texas got stuck with two million acres of West Texas scrubland. Then it hit oil, and the money started rolling in.

Aug 31, 1984 — By Stephen Harrigan

It all started at my grandmother’s when I was seven years old. No biscuit has since measured up, but my lonely search for that sublime confection continues.

Aug 31, 1984 — By Alexa Grace

An interpretation of a classic genre.

Aug 31, 1984 — By Mimi Swartz

There are a hundred of them, and their job is invisibility. They come into giant office buildings after everyone has gone home and, if they do the job right, make the evidence of the day’s work disappear.

Aug 31, 1984 — By Texas Monthly

Remember when children played dress-up in their own clothes? They still can.

Aug 31, 1984 — By Lucius Lomax

At a slightly wacky hotel in southern Mexico, you can lose your inhibitions and find a little romance.

Aug 31, 1984 — By Peter Elkind

He had it all: a wife and a mistress, a limousine and a motorcycle, the second-highest job at the Pentagon and some good-time Dallas buddies. Then the SEC took an interest in his life.

Aug 31, 1984 — By Andrea Meditch

UT reports on how well students from Texas schools do.

Aug 31, 1984 — By W. L. Taitte

The Public Opera of Dallas aimed its first season at opera greenhorns and scored two bull’s-eyes.

Aug 31, 1984 — By Mark Seal

Roger Staubach finds happiness by swapping Rolaids for real estate.

Aug 31, 1984 — By Dominique Browning

On the Edge of Life

Aug 31, 1984 — By James Whitaker

William Humphrey’s Hostages to Fortune tells a sodden fishing story; C.W. Smith’s The Vestal Virgin Room tells of an empty quest for fame; Rosemary Catacalos’ Again for the First Time is an outstanding collection of verse.

Aug 31, 1984 — By Jody Denberg

“Herd It Through the Grapevine,” a new disc anthology, has the top of the pop crop.

Aug 31, 1984 — By James Wolcott

Prince’s Purple Rain is short on plot and dialogue but long on fancy anguish; The Bostonians is a namby-pamby treatment of Henry James’ biting novel.

Aug 31, 1984 — By Patricia Sharpe

It’s all here in black and white.

Aug 31, 1984 — By Paul Burka

Trauma for Texas hospitals; more trouble (what else?) for Clinton Manges; why Doggett should win—but probably won’t; and real deals in Houston.

Aug 31, 1984 — By Texas Monthly

Great café meals, dubious political deals, Luckenbach’s ideals.

Aug 31, 1984 — By Texas Monthly

Aug 31, 1984 — By Joseph Nocera

A new Henry Lee Lucas mystery in Lubbock