Word: houston
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Byrne's Love Goes to a Building on Fire. Reporter-Researcher Elizabeth Bland, who assisted Cocks with the story, interviewed the musician-director several times in New York City. Bland says her initial fears about Byrne's daunting reserve were dissolved by the singer's dry wit. In Texas, Houston Bureau Chief Richard Woodbury attempted to hunt down the offbeat characters who played themselves in True Stories, including a man with dancing goldfish...
...suburban Houston's affluent Memorial area, Pawnbroker Jean Davis last month installed a drive-in window so that once rich oil barons would not have to embarrass themselves by going through the shop's front door. Davis recently began dispatching a black limousine to bring in clients. At Shaw's Jewelry and Loan on the eastern edge of Houston's tony River Oaks section, pawnbroker loans are running nearly 20% above last year's pace. The new clients are bringing in everything from a $35,000 bronze statue to state-of- the-art stereo systems. One oil company executive came...
...collection of adventurous theater directors, dancers, composers and rock musicians that has been bubbling south of Houston Street since the 1960s has wedded high art to pop culture. Composer Philip Glass has brought the pulsating idiom of rock into the sacred precincts of the opera house, while Theater Artist Robert Wilson's slow-motion dreamscapes have influenced not only a neophyte filmmaker like Byrne but an experienced theater director like Andrei Serban. Performance art, an offbeat amalgam of music, theater, narration and stand-up comedy, has caught flight on the puckish wings of Laurie Anderson. Choreographers such as Twyla Tharp...
...eyes. Now I see through slits, when I can see." Other patients who used Oculinum, including some suffering from crossed eyes (strabismus) or muscle spasms of the face, neck and vocal cords, are clamoring for the drug. Says Neurologist Joseph Jankovic of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston: "All of our patients have reversed to their original condition...
Ojeda, 18-5 during the regular season, allowed 10 hits, struck out five and walked two--baffling and beleaguering Houston's hitters with his slow curve, changeup and occasional fastball. He flirted with trouble often, but the Astros managed just...