
July 1991 Issue
Features


Texas Movies: In Character
From wheezy-voiced geezers to yuk-it-up yokels, these actors excel at portraying the stereotypical Texan.

Texas Movies: Coming Soon!
The Lone Star State plays a lead role in fourteen new releases.


Texas Movies: Tender Foote
Oscar-winning screenwriter Horton Foote continues to capture ordinary people coping with life’s difficulties.

The Ghosts of the Freedmen
Dallas is a city that has prided itself on having escaped the hostility of the civil rights years—until now.


Perils of Politics
Ann Richards, Bob Bullock, and Gib Lewis are headed for a crash over the stated budget.
Columns

State Fare: Cheese Strudel With Smoked Salmon
With the Four Seasons Hotel’s sweeping view of one of Austin’s most unusual vistas—nightly bat flights snake out from under the Congress Avenue bridge and push east along Town Lake—dinners at the hotel’s Riverside Cafe (98 San Jacinto) are a double feature that’s hard to top. But the food here
Pomp and Circumstance
Kicked out of the Miss USA contest, two Texas beauty moguls landed on their feet and started their own pagent.

Going by the Book
Under Jim Hightower, the agriculture department was liberal and loose. Under Rick Perry, it will be corporate and crisp.
Lights! Camera!
Action abounds in the new slide show at the San Jacinto Monument, but the view of history falls a bit short.
Miscellany
Uniform Success
Williamson-Dickie of Fort Worth has a blue-collar gold mine in Dickies work clothes.
Fraud Buster
An Austin investigator clues accountants in on how to sniff out financial shenanigans.