D Magazine October 1981

Car makers are discovering a maxim lost in the fuel-frenzied early Seventies: Fun sells cars.

THE PROBLEM with public schools in Dallas is not blacks or bilinguals. It’s DISD. When a group of East Dallas parents decided they’d had enough, they started their own school. Now their children are getting an education.

Most marriages are made of magic, but the magic usually fades fast and the relationship disappears like a mirage

How to buy without getting burned

Sometimes she has a daydream: Dale comes home and wants her back again; she stands there triumphantly and says ’No’

12 ways to make a killing through divorce

Dreaming in landscapes.

They got married when they were too young; he tried to be a bachelor and a husband at the same time; he was destined to fail

Relationships, like people, change with the passing years; sometimes a ’good’ divorce is the best thing that can happen to a couple

Publishers fight ’dial-a-newspaper.’

A who’s who in the ’soap opera’ court circuit

Noodling around with homemade pasta.

BE IT CADILLACS OR CHRYSANTHEMUMS, WHAT THEY’RE REALLY SELLING IS THEMSELVES.

Thousands of marriages lie beneath the sod of memory; was it a mere coincidence that they all succumbed in the same era?

On the streets with a lady of the law.

The Dallas Cowboys coach sees life as a game, not a jungle. The purpose of the game is to win. Sometimes that makes the game a jungle for the men who play for him.

Today’s average marriage will dissolve in 7.6 years; does that mean our society is failing? Or is our culture simply changing?

They’re hard to find, but they’re worth it.