
August 1982 Issue
Features

Texas Primer: The Tract House
It symbolizes either the American dream or the American nightmare—one or the other of which is enveloping Texas.
Columns
Kirk And Spock And Scotty And Bones
Everybody’s favorite starshippers battle a bad guy and the bulge in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Author! Author! is nothing to write home about. The Thing is barely human. And there’s The World According to Garp, Firefox, and Blade Runner.
Ol’ Man Musical
Houston Grand Opera dedicated a lot of its budget and all of its heart to producing not an opera but an American musical—Show Boat.
The Tongue-Lashing
A host of Pentecostals gathered in Dallas to hug, kiss, sing, babble, and get the chewing-out of their lives.
The Elegiac Image
Photographer George Krause draws the viewer into a twilight world where jocks, saints, and nudes seem almost mystical.
The Comeback Of The Column
They haven’t designed any Parthenons or Colosseums yet, but architects like Robert Venturi and Michael Graves are bringing a touch of ancient Greece and Rome to Texas.
Reporter
Texas Monthly Reporter
Austin’s Bourbon Street; San Antonio’s food fight; the governor’s mystery museum; Green Lizards in Concan; truffles in paradise.
Miscellany
State Secrets
Heads-up journalism; expensive mileage; the balkanization of the Sunbelt; wars in the oil patch.