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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gender swipe. Texas State Treasurer Ann Richards, an excellent speaker with a biting wit, will keynote the Democratic Convention as living proof that gender is a Bush, not a Dukakis, hang-up. She will also stake her claim as a real Texan, not one whose "residence" is a Houston hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grapevine: Jul. 11, 1988 | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

...Painters and Sculptors," a show of some 180 works that has been on view jointly at the University of Miami's Lowe Art Museum and the Metropolitan Museum and Art Center in Coral Gables, Fla. Curated by Jane Livingston and John Beardsley, the exhibit has already been seen in Houston and Washington; after Miami, through September 1989, it will travel to Santa Fe, Los Angeles and New York City. It is by far the most detailed and serious effort ever made to survey the current painting and sculpture of Hispanic Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Heritage Of Rich Imagery | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

Having received extreme unction from a Catholic priest in Houston, Texas, Matilde asks her friend Ada Luz to ensure that one of the "revolutionary priests from the slums" say mass upon her death. Such wishes, however, conflict with the desires of the communist party, which, under the direction of Lisboa, wants to turn the funeral into a leftist manifestation of power without competition from the Church...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Donoso's Vague Chile | 7/6/1988 | See Source »

Choked by thoughts of his deceased father, Strange could scarcely say what it meant to win the U.S. Open. Just beating Faldo head to head couldn't be it. He hadn't cried when he won the Houston, the Hartford or the Honda. "It means what every little boy dreams about," he said finally, "when he plays golf all by himself late in the afternoon, and he puts down three or four balls. One is Snead, one is Hogan, one is Nicklaus and maybe one is Strange." And he is entered in the British Open in two weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Playing for The History Books | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

...many single mothers, starting a company is a way out of poverty. Ninfa Maria Rodriguez Laurenzo, a widow, was looking for a way to support her three youngest children when she opened a tiny Mexican restaurant in Houston in 1973. In that business, she says, "I knew there would at least be food for my family." Last year Ninfa's, her chain of ten Texas restaurants, grossed $20 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Women Entrepreneurs: She Calls All the Shots | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

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