September 1997
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Features
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Self-Promotion • Eddie Wilson
Man equals myth.
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Multimedia • Chris Roberts
The name of the gamer.
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The Texas Twenty
They worked hard, overcame obstacles, bucked conventional wisdom, and touched our lives. Meet the most impressive, intriguing, and influential Texans of 1997.
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Health • Eric Moon-shong Tang
Smoking out the truth.
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Public Service • Bill Hobby
Governed by generosity.
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Sports • Tara Lipinski
The ice girl cometh.
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Environment • Phyllis Glazer
Waste not.
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Music • LeAnn Rimes
Little miss hits.
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Art • Peter Marzio
On the money.
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Performing Arts • Jo Long
Culturally centered.
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Science • Richard E. Smalley
Good chemistry.
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Gossip • Liz Smith
She’s got a secret.
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Law • Lucius D. Bunton III
Here comes the judge.
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Politics • Bill Archer
Taxes are his target.
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Business • Michael Dell
Still plugged in.
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Food • Tri La
Culinary assimilation.
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Architecture • Ted Flato and David Lake
Master builders.
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Literature • Angela Shelf Medearis
Doing the write thing.
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Film • Renée Zellweger
Ready for her close-up.
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Television • Hank Hill
An animated personality.
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Columns
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No Show
Cash-poor PBS stations can’t seem to come up with innovative new ideas, so they ought to resurrect an innovative old one: Newsroom, the best local public- affairs program in Texas history.
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The Links That Bind
For Texas’ Kuehne kids, excelling at golf is par for the course—and the least their father will accept.
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My Willie
Willie Nelson and I have been friends for years, so why did I decide only now to make him a character in one of my mystery novels? The plot thickens.
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Total Exposure
Is there such a thing as privacy on the Internet?
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Oh, Say, Can You Sí?
Until recently, I couldn’t. Then I enrolled in language school in the charming Mexican town of Guanajuato, and two weeks later I was comfortably conversant in español.
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Reporter
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Armey of One
By trying to have it both ways in the coup against Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey hurt the Republican party—and himself.
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Bush’s Hit Man
The governor’s media guru is accused of spousal abuse.
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Yule Love It
The holiday season comes early for Asleep at the Wheel, who’ve just wrapped Merry Texas Christmas, Y’all (High Street/Windham Hill Records) at Austin’s Bismeaux studios. Highlights include Tish Hinojosa singing “Feliz Navidad” and Willie Nelson and Don Walser on “Silent Night.” Too homey for you? Wheel front man Ray Benson’s “Christmas in Jail” might get …
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CD and Book Reviews
Hot CDs Running on equal parts inspiration and gumption, Austin’s Damnations are the alternative to alternative country, going way back for tunes like “Copper Kettle,” forward for a romp through Lucinda Williams’ “Happy Woman Blues,” and their own way with impressively traditional-progressive originals. The mostly acoustic Live Set (Damnations), pressed in a limited edition for …
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Elka
Like sadistic teenagers who introduce fire ants into an otherwise docile ant farm, the producers of MTV’s voyeuristic soap opera The Real World make casting decisions based not on avoiding conflict but on encouraging it. This season’s stereotypes are a jock, a poet, a comely lesbian, a city girl, a black stud who dates white …
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Barbara Barrie
I enrolled at the University of Texas in 1950 during a post-war period that produced many talented individuals. Harvey Schmidt, Tom Jones, Liz Smith, Robert Benton, Pat Hingle, Word Baker, Kathryn Grant (later Mrs. Bing Crosby), and I all graduated with degrees in drama. We did lots of dance concerts with Shirley Dodge, who was …
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Power Surge
The biggest economic news in Texas is the merging of the electric and natural-gas utility industries in anticipation of the coming deregulation of electricity. Huge deals are in the works: Houston Industries, the parent of Houston Lighting and Power, is acquiring Houston-based NorAm, the nation’s third-largest gas utility; and Texas Utilities is buying Enserch, the …
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Winging It
A bat man builds a super cave (holy conservation!).
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Heavenly
The heavenly hits of God’s Property.
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King Fishy
A history mystery involving ranching’s King family.
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Web
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Moose Cafe’s Cedar-Plank Shrimp
Scalloped Tarragon Potatoes 1 pound red potatoes, skins on, sliced very thin 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 teaspoons minced garlic 1 tablespoon fresh chopped tarragon Salt and white pepper to taste Toss all ingredients together. On a lightly greased sheet pan arrange potatoes in a spiral form, overlapping each slice, to make 2 solid circles …
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Miscellany
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Bleak House
Attacking the House of Yahweh: defending Texas pols.
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Jimmie Rodgers
What respiratory ailment afflicted Jimmie Rodgers, prompting fans to shout “Spit ’er up and sing some more”?
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What a Drag
Celebrity portraiture often requires that the subject be ready for anything. An imaginative photographer like Houston’s Pam Francis will conjure up unusual settings and costumes to best evoke her subject’s true nature, as when she lured oil tycoon Oscar Wyatt and his German shepherd to the roof of a building for a cover shot (“Meaner …
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State Fare
Will you enjoy the smoke-roasted shrimp at Houston’s Moose Cafe? You can plank on it.
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