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D Magazine October 1981

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1982 AUTO GUIDE

Car makers are discovering a maxim lost in the fuel-frenzied early Seventies: Fun sells cars.
By Alex BarclayRoyce
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A School That Really Works

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.
By GRADY HILLMAN
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BREAKING AWAY

Most marriages are made of magic, but the magic usually fades fast and the relationship disappears like a mirage
By D Magazine
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CONSUMER CONDO CAVEAT

How to buy without getting burned
By Katherine Hampton
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CYNTHIA’S STORY

Sometimes she has a daydream: Dale comes home and wants her back again; she stands there triumphantly and says ’No’
By CONNIE DURHAM
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EDITOR’S PAGE

By Rowland Stiteler
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INSIGHTS

Dreaming in landscapes.
By Michael Berryhill
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JACK’S STORY

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
By MIKE SHROPSHIRE
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JO’S STORY

Relationships, like people, change with the passing years; sometimes a ’good’ divorce is the best thing that can happen to a couple
By Jo Brans
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MEDIA BATTLING MA BELL

Publishers fight ’dial-a-newspaper.’
By Pat Bradley
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RATING THE DIVORCE JUDGES:

A who’s who in the ’soap opera’ court circuit
By G.R.
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RESTAURANTS DINING OUT

Noodling around with homemade pasta.
By D Magazine
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RIDING ON A SMILE AND A SHOESHINE

BE IT CADILLACS OR CHRYSANTHEMUMS, WHAT THEY’RE REALLY SELLING IS THEMSELVES.
By Amy Cunningham
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ROBERT’S STORY

Thousands of marriages lie beneath the sod of memory; was it a mere coincidence that they all succumbed in the same era?
By ROBERT FARRAR CAPON
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THE CITY LIPSTICK & LARCENY

On the streets with a lady of the law.
By Lee Ballard
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Tom Landry: The Gamesman

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.
By Peter Gent
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THE NEW NORMALITY

Today’s average marriage will dissolve in 7.6 years; does that mean our society is failing? Or is our culture simply changing?
By George Rodrigue
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WINE SPECIAL CASES

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