D Magazine October 1989

How the son of Robert Strauss sweetened a sweetheart deal.

THE REBIRTH OF A MAGAZINE

Moms applaud as three Dallas women make Euro-style kidstuff their business.

Can marketing whiz Pam Wendland do for art what she did for Slurpees?

Is the bad boy of Texas politics a) corrupt; b) a guileless megalomaniac; c) the establishment’s whipping boy; d) a vicious campaigner with an eye for the jugular; and e)-GULP-the next governor of Texas?

ABORTION: THE NEVER-ENDING STRUGGLE

When J. Waddy Tate was around, running Dallas was fun.

An ode to Too Tall, the last real Cowboy.

Putting park money into the neighborhood is payola to some, an investment to others.

Who says that intellectual life in America is confined to Berkeley and Greenwich Village? Dallas has a burgeoning universe of poets, prophets, philosophers, gurus, savants, and other assorted thinkers to teach us that learning never stops.

From Highland Park to the Himalayas-I faced a world without hair dryers.