D Magazine March 1988

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AIDS: SEVEN DAYS IN THE CRISIS
These sixty-one doctors and therapists, victims and volunteers, are fighting the battle against AIDS. So far, they’re losing.
By Skip Hollandsworth
Apocalypse Now: The Tax Collector’s Race
By Chris Tucker
BOOKS ROTTEN APPLE
Can anyone chronicle the fall of New York better than Tom Wolfe? Ayyyyy, fuhgedaboudit.
By Chris Tucker
CARS IMAGE ’88
Move over, Mercedes. Even Mazda has squeezed in on the status car craze.
By Preston Lerner
DALLAS City of Winners
By D Magazine
DALLAS EXPLAINED
By Wendy Bagwell
DEATH FROM THE SKY
When the red phone rings, the bomber crews at Carswell Air Force Base will be ready. You may not know what goes on 34 miles west of Dealey Plaza, but the Soviets sure do.
By MIKE SHROPSHIRE
EDITOR’S PAGE
The politics of AIDS: a bitter struggle for compassion and money
By Ruth Miller Fitzgibbons
FILE IT AWAY
By W.B.
FROM THE COAST
By D Magazine
GEORGE HARDIE REMEMBERS…
George Hardie cast his collegiate lot with SMU in the 1970s and went on to play professional tennis. Today he’s a Dallas businessman with fond memories of WCT years gone by. Here he reviews the yearly spring ritual, beginning with the first WCT Finals meeting in 1971.
By GEORGE HARDIE
Hospital Death Count: Do The Feds’ Figures Lie?
By Kathy Dinsdale
IT WAS 20 YEARS AGO TODAY
By TOM KOCH
It’s All Yuppie Muzak To Me
By Jeff Posey
Lance Armstrong: “I Was a Teenaged Ironman”
By Mark Henricks
Life Imitates TV: Developer Buys Ewing Oil!
By Sally Giddens
MARCH EVENTS OPENERS
By Jeff Posey
Medical Update ADVERTISEMENT
By D Magazine
NOTED & QUOTED
By D Magazine
OUR MAN DOWNTOWN
To thousands of Dallas blacks, John Wiley Price is the pipeline to power. The flamboyant county commissioner is a man on a mission. Like his daddy always said, “It’s better to die for a cause than because.”
By Cecil Sharp
STARK REALITIES
A project by Harvey Phillips and Frank Ryburn is a white jewel in a gritty landscape.
By D Magazine
STREET TALK
By D Magazine
Students Beat Stock Market Pros-No Bull
By Preston Lerner
TABLES D’ HAUTE
Three restaurants by Paul Draper titillate our appetites with a visual feast
By D Magazine
THUMB AWARD Perot’s Gift Is A Brain Gain
By D Magazine
UPDATE
By Richard West
WHY THE BEST DEAL IN DALLAS IS NOT IN DALLAS
By BEN JONES