
February 1980 Issue

Features


I Found Romance at the Bijou Theatre
We don’t know how you learned about the birds and the bees, but we’ll bet you learned about love the same way we did: from the movies.

True Love
Actual photos! In living color! Incontrovertible evidence that kissing is fun!

Rock ’N’ Roll’s Wizard of Oz
How Gordon McLendon stormed Texas with Top 40 . . . da doo ron ron.

Down in the Depths
The intricate underwater passages and pristine water of Jacob’s Well fascinate divers. Too often, the fascination proves fatal.
Columns
Ramblin’ Rose
Eminent art critic Barbara Rose has assembled an exhibit of paintings of the eighties. Oh, yeah? Where did she get them?
Lord, Won’t You Buy Me Some Time on TV?
Preachers Robert Schuller and Rex Humbard have zeroed in on the modern way to reach a congregation: electronically.
The Foreign Legion
Dallas Civic Opera is a grand old lady who knows her European opera. But sometimes she gets a little senile.
Danger: Low Voltage
The Electric Horseman got its wires crossed. Kramer vs. Kramer is an above-average film taken from a below-average novel.
Flipping Out
When big-time gymnastics came to Fort Worth, half the contestants were steely-eyed little girls with the bodies of children and the wills of fanatics.
Reporter
Texas Monthly Reporter
Old what’s-his-name is the most powerful man in Texas; Simone Beck takes her culinary magic show on the road; duck hunters and conservationists battle over a marsh.
Miscellany
Roar of the Crowd
Onward through the smoke, upward through defeat, backward through time.
State Secrets
Marlin sidetracks the Missouri-Pacific; school boards wrangle over the handicapped; two Texas Sports magazines slug it out.