D Magazine February 1988

If it can go wrong, it will. If it can cost more, it will. But here are a few ways to beat the re-do blues.

For God’s sake, get me to the arboretum, the museum, or the esplanade on time!

For the love of billiards: an appreciation, a history, and five great pool halls. Rack’em.

THE 1988 PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY

What would Gandhi do? Some thoughts on the power of hate.

Especially when it comes to changing light bulbs, installing towel bars, fixing things that are broken, and all those things men know how to do.

And two other newcomers: Trieste and Mekong

In the ring, they were masters of theatrics—heroic and invincible. In life, America’s greatest wrestling dynasty has been battered by tragedy and fate.

When the going got tough, red meat got leaner. And with the change, beef is back.

Unexpectedly, he became Dallas’s first black city manager. A year later, Richard Knight looks back on his stormy initiation-and braces himself for the trials to come.