D Magazine January 1979

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BOOKS Return Engagements
Brammer reappearing, Updike relocating, Olsen remonstrating
By Jo Brans
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CAN DALLAS KEEP HARRY PARKER?
He wants to be the director of a major museum. And if Dallas doesn’t give him one, someone else will.
By David Dillon
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FAMILIES, Simple, Uncomplicated Lives
What do I really have in common with my mother and her mother?
By Jo Brans
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HEALTH Seeing Things In Their True Colors
What’s it like being colorblind? I’ll tell you when you tell me what it’s like not being colorblind.
By Charles Matthews
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The car
A bit of nostalgia for the cars we used to drive, some cosmetic and mechanical advice for the car you now drive, and some predictions about the car you will drive before very long.
By D Magazine
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THE CONSUMER Something Old, Something New
How can you be sure that prize antique wasn’t born yesterday?
By Tom Peeler
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THE END OF THE WORLD
Nineteen hundred years ago a city died. It’s being reborn in Dallas this month.
By G. W. Bowersock
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The Making of a Governor, 1979
George Steffes has the most important job in Texas politics-turning a Republican victory into a Republican administration.
By Jim Atkinson
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THE VIETNAM TIME BOMB
For many combat veterans the war will never end. It can explode, without warning, in their minds.
By Rowland Stiteler