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The Neon Lights Are Bright in Dallas

Dallas productions of The Elephant Man and Children of a Lesser God proved that Broadway is getting closer to home.

State Secrets

Bombs away on the Franklin Mountains; why pro-nukes belong in the Nutt House; the Dallas News goes public; sportfishermen change their minds about redfish.

Roar of the Crowd

Bullets, Bibles, and buds.

Reporter

Mr. Boll Weevil goes to Washington; Dallas scholars go to the Sunbelt’s defense; Houston’s public abortion clinic goes down the drain.

Puzzle

Holey Rollers.

Angry Men

Texas Fathers for Equal Rights joined divorced men from all over the country to protest family courts that have always favored mothers in child custody cases.

Thrills, Chills, Action, Adventure

Raiders of the Lost Ark gets an A, but it’s still a B-movie. Arthur has a dead plot but lively humor. Stripes should have been scuttled.

Cruel and Unusual Parenthood

Every year thousands of men and women assault, molest, or murder innocent victims - their own children.

The Fifty Best Texas Books

One man’s favorite writings span a century and capture Texas in all its grimness and glory.

Unentitled

Artists and art organizations are getting cut off from the federal dole - and maybe that’s not such a bad thing.

A Simple Man

Archbishop Patrick Flores acts like a country priest, but he has a tough job: he is the most powerful Catholic clergyman in Texas, and perhaps the most powerful Mexican American as well.

I Remember Masa

The last word on tortillas: how to make them, when to eat them, and why they should be in every artist’s studio.

Space Cadet

Astronauts used to be dashing pilots. Now they’re doctors, scientists, and . . . sanitary engineers.

Touts

How you bean, kid?

State Secrets

A deal that failed; macho political ads, the unhappiest man in Texas; a big time legal goof.

Reporter

McAllen mayor Othal Brand fights for his political life; a killer storm ravages Austin; a Highland Park matron trades fancy parties for farming.

Puzzle

Diamonds are a boy’s best friend.

Fangs

Now is the time to unlearn everything you’ve ever heard about snakebite.

1981: The Ten Best and The Ten Worst Legislators

Nineteen people you voted for and one you didn't.

The Long Arm of the Oracle

John Catchings can sole crimes without witnesses, confessions, or clues. How? He’s a psychic.

The Kingfish Revisited

Tell It, Brother Hill!

A visiting revivalist lays some eloquent preaching on Pasadena Baptists. Nearby in Houston, the festival of Purim gives templegoers good reason to dress up, drink up, and raise a ruckus.

Driving a Soft Bargain

Take the “Art of Negotiating” seminar, and you too can learn to wheel and deal with a smile.

Behind the Lines

The war that won’t go away.

Get Out and See the World, Kid . . . or Bring the World Back Home

These gifts should activate the wanderlust in any recent graduate.

The Year of the Flower

What’s behind this year’s rampant display of wild flowers? The birds and the bees, of course.

The Coyote Wars

The stake is survival—for either the sheep and goat ranchers of West Texas or the smartest predator of all.

The Plane the Pentagon Couldn’t Stop

West of Fort Worth, General Dynamics builds the F-16, a good little fighter plane that could have been great if the Air Force brass had kept their hands off it.

Touts

About-face, inner space, and keeping pace.

State Secrets

Farmers and oilmen fight over water; a Houston gold rush for TV licenses; houses multiply faster than people; security for brokers.

Roar of the Crowd

Fire and brimstone on the right, Observer on the left, guns under the bed.

Reporter

Kirk Crocker’s radiation nightmare; Texas International tries to swallow Continental Air Lines - and chokes; Panhandle farmers confront the M-X missile folly; can Houston have its park and oil wells, too?

Puzzle

Hard hats.

Shades of Gray

Thomas Thompson won his Blood and Money libel suit, but the trial left one question unanswered: how much of his imagination is a nonfiction writer allowed to use?

Downhill All The Way

Our Colorado skiing vacation thrilled the men in my life, but all it gave me was bruised feet and a battered ego.

Blood Buff

The Fan is the story of a man whose adoration for an actress turns to hate, and the movie turns your stomach. Alan Alda takes a studiously liberated look at divorce among old married couples in The Four Seasons. Take This Job and Shove It is another workingman’s-hero movie; so

Lock ‘Em Up

Mandatory sentencing means every felon gets the same sentence for the same crime - and for the rest of us it means a lot of crimes that won’t happen.

Mozart Is As Mozart Was

Conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are two centuries apart, but their ideas about music are exactly the same.

The Eve of Destruction

The millennium is nigh, according to some evangelists, and when Jesus returns, Texans will experience either rapture or hell and high water.

Behind the Lines

Gaudy, drawling, filthy rich.

A Crush on Love

In Painted Dresses Shelby Hearon tries to plumb the depths of love, but her characters turn out to be too shallow.

Champs

It IS whether you win. And these eight Texans are winners.

The Subway That Ate Houston

The most expensive, amazing, dynamic, futuristic, and sexy way not to solve a transit crisis.

The Mistress and the Muscleman

A tale of passion in the double-knit aristocracy.

The Governor’s New Clothes

Bill Clements, unmasked at last.

Touts

On the ball and off the wall.

State Secrets

Fines for political signs; big changes in the Valley; UT bursting at the seams; the failure of consultants; Arlington, an unlikely newspaper town.

The Pitcher’s Right Arm

The Hendricks brothers are pros at making money - for themselves as well as for the pros they represent.

Reporter

Studying the hard truths of Dallas politics; learning the ropes as a commercial driver; teaching kids to think; remembering the lessons of the oil patch.

Puzzle

High gear.