Can’t Buy Me Love
Almost from the day he made his arrival in Houston in the early fifties from Harvard’s MBA program, he was known as the Sphinx. Fayez Sarofim, the son of a prosperous Egyptian landowner, dressed in...
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Law and Disorder
Darla Lexington sleeps in a very dark room in a very large bed, alone. Like a particular kind of Houston woman, the fact that she lives on the top floor of a luxury apartment building is a sign of...
View ArticleCourtroom Drama
John O’Quinn wanted to be the best lawyer who ever lived. And for a while, it looked as if that was going to happen. He certainly was one of the most successful—and one of the richest. But the power he...
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Sex, Lies, and Hit Men!
At seven o’clock in the morning on February 11, 2010, a man drove to the well-heeled community of Bellaire, in the heart of Houston. He turned onto South Third, a quiet street dotted with...
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A Q&A With Skip Hollandsworth
It has become the most talked-about crime story in Houston: the well-known Houston personal injury lawyer Jeffrey Stern has been accused by police of conspiring with his mistress, Michelle Gaiser, to...
View ArticleThe Highland Park Woman
THE HIGHLAND PARK WOMAN is thirty-two or thirty-three. She says she honestly forgets sometimes. She’s not particularly afraid to tell her age (she’s not that old) but she seldom does. It’s not really...
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The Texanist: Has PC Culture Tamed the Texanist’s Tongue?
Q: I just read a rerun of one of your advice columns, “Contemplating the Texas Exit,” that I got in my daily Texas Monthly email newsletter. In the article there is a link to other road-related advice...
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The Mistress and the Muscleman
This story is from Texas Monthly’s archives. We have left the text as it was originally published to maintain a clear historical record. Read more here about our archive digitization project. In...
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Lyndon Johnson, Hairdresser, Prepares for Battle
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The Deluxe Down-and-Dirty Goose Hunt
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The No Decade
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Culture Club
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The Fantasy World of Victor Costa
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Texas Primer: Texas Guinan
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Parish the Thought!
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