D Magazine February 1988

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DESIGN REMODELING MADNESS
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.
By
Lisa Kestler
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EDITOR’S PAGE On progress and priorities: voices from D’s Women’s Conference
By
Ruth Miller Fitzgibbons
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ENTERTAINING ALTARED STATES
For God’s sake, get me to the arboretum, the museum, or the esplanade on time!
By
Lucie Nelka
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In Search Of The HOLY RAIL
For the love of billiards: an appreciation, a history, and five great pool halls. Rack’em.
By
SCOTT BULLOCK
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RELATIONSHIP A WOMAN OF DEPENDENT MEANS
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.
By
Jean Gonick
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Spatz: The Secret Is Simplicity
And two other newcomers: Trieste and Mekong
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Wrestling
The Fall of the House of Von Erich
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.
By
Skip Hollandsworth
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The Fatted Calf Ain’t What He Used To Be
When the going got tough, red meat got leaner. And with the change, beef is back.
By
Mary Brown Malouf
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THE VIEW FROM CITY HALL
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.
By
KIT BAUMAN