D Magazine November 1986
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BUSINESS The Tale of Our Overbuilt City
Wherein a few bad boys threaten to ruin the once amiable relationship between office brokers and developers.
By Sally Giddens
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CITY Crime and More, More Punishment
Lacking more people up longer is an approach to crime that has been tried and has failed. Now the Mayor’s Task Force wants to try it again.
By Richard West
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CULINARY INTERVIEW: DEL FRISCO
a candid conversation with the steak house entrepreneur about his food, his methods, his peers, and his reputation as the “beef master”
By D Magazine
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EDITOR’S PAGE
Why Shoot the Messenger for Bearing the Bad News?
By Ruth Miller Fitzgibbons
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GIRLS JUST HAVING FUN
Marian Henley’s discovery of the Maxine within her
By Sophia Dembling
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Guide CHEAP THRILLS
From feasting at Brio to joining the rodeo, here’s the line on cheap eats, seats, and treats.
By D Magazine
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INTERVIEW The Hard Rock Rolls To Dallas
Isaac Tigrett on Elvis Presley’s hat, John Lennon’s sofa, the God Wall, and the leveling of Calluaud for a parking lot.
By ALAN PEPPARD
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LIVING To Sleep, Perchance
An insomniac endures the hour of the wolf a piece of Fontina cheese, and one tired chicken wing.
By Jean Gonick
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MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
SAFER THAN AN X-RAY, KEENER THAN A CAT-SCAN, IT’S BECOMING THE DIAGNOSTIC TOOL FOR THE 21st CENTURY.
By D Magazine
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MEDIA Yakety-Yak, They Talk Back
Once DJs were told to plug the platter and shut up. Now constant chatter-some of it pretty blue-fills the airwaves.
By Dennis Holder
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PARTING SHOT
The Yellow Peril: What price will we pay for a drug-free society?
By Chris Tucker
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PROPHET OF THE APOCALYPSE
Once a minister to street gangs, David Wilkerson fell from grace when he began to preach a nuclear Armageddon.
By Glenna Whitley
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RETROSPECTIVE Trinity River Visionary
Commodore Hatfield, an early hypester of tall Texana, was the first to see riches and fame in a muddy river.
By Gene Fowler
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TAKE ME TO THE LIMIT
Real estate limited partnerships can offer investors windfall returns. They can also blow you away.
By D Magazine
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THE CASE OF THE TERMINAL SECRETS
In a high-stakes. multimillion-dollar race to create a new computer language, two ex-TI whiz kids thought they were close to an answer. Then they were accused of stealing it.
By Skip Hollandsworth
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THE NOUVEAU BROKE
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE GOT-RICH-QUICK, GET-POOR-QUICKER?
By MIKE SHROPSHIRE