Word: houstonize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rafael Moneo, Pritzker Prize winner and architect for the new extension to Houston's Museum of Fine Arts: "The Library at Alexandria [in Egypt]. I very much would like to see how people in those years understood what an active public space should...
...feeling quite so flush, cadged his secretary's sandwich. Less well known was oil and cattle baron James ("Silver Dollar Jim") West (1903-57). Wearing a diamond-encrusted Texas Ranger's badge and hunched behind the wheel of one of his 30 automobiles, West loved to race alongside Houston police in pursuit of evildoers, throwing handfuls of silver dollars to startled onlookers as he sped...
Texas sure is an exciting place. I'd forgotten how wild and trigger-happy my home state was until I returned to Houston last week for a little rest and leisure. In the span of the three days after Thanksgiving, we Texans got caught up in a real-life Western featuring a daring prison escape, several shootouts and a manhunt reminiscent of Bonnie and Clyde...
...morning of Friday, Nov. 27, seven death row inmates attempted to escape from Huntsville Prison, about 80 miles north of Houston. The enterprising fellas apparently used a hacksaw to cut a hole in a recreation yard fence, hid on the roof of a cell block for nearly three hours and then made a mad dash for two 10-foot perimeter fences topped with razor wire. Huntsville guards opened fire immediately, emptying nearly 20 rounds. All the prisoners froze in their tracks and fell to the ground shaken but unhit--all except Martin E. Gurule, who scaled both walls (using either...
Teachers and counselors report that kids who are taught to hunt responsibly are generally among the more mature and better-mannered--and saner--adolescents in the wilds of modern American culture. Cesario Guerrero, an agricultural-science teacher, leads kids from tough neighborhoods in inner-city Houston on hunting trips for deer and wild hogs and observes that these students often "become part of a different crowd" when they return. "It gives them a pride...