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COVER GIRLS.Navigation: Main page Author: Dingus, Anne
FROM LADY BIRD JOHNSON TO THE DIXIE CHICKS, OUTSTANDING TEXAS WOMEN HAVE BEEN PUTTING OUR BEST FACE FORWARD FOR THIRTY YEARS. SEEMS LIKE EVERY female in the state, from first lady to floozy, has graced the cover of Texas Monthly since the magazine debuted in 1973. Over the course of 361 issues, including this one, the cover has captured or mirrored the many faces of Texas women, from the traditionally feminine, such as cheerleaders and beauty queens, to the more challengingly modern, like politicians and self-made millionaires. (And yes, there have also been some unsavory types along the way: stripper, cult leader, murderer.) (*) Here we have resurrected fifty of our favorite covers featuring girls and women, from a wide-eyed toddler in day care to 99-year-old rancher Hallie Stillwell. You'll also find Congresswoman Barbara Jordan and makeup magnate Mary Kay Ash. Naturally we've paid homage to fist-ladies-in-law Laura and Barbara Bush, although our most famous cover ever showed a governor: Ann Richards, who was depicted in July 1992 dressed in white leather and straddling a motorcycle. (Actually, the photo is a composite: We stuck photographer Kevin Vandivier's head shot of Richards on a model's body.) Besides the "White Hot Mama" shot, Richards showed up on two other TM covers for a total of three appearances, a record matched only by Selena, the tejano singer, and Anna Nicole Smith, a former Playmate and model and a perennial Bum Steer. But a larger-than-life icon trumps them all: Texas' beloved Lady Bird Johnson has graced a quartet of covers, all since 1994. * The stars come out on a regular basis: We've twice featured actresses Farrah Fawcett and Sissy Spacek and singer LeAnn Rimes. But not all our leading ladies have been so famous. Over the years we've enlisted professional models to help sell dozens of cover stories on subjects ranging from barbecue and tequila to public education and the airline biz. Some shots are unapologetically sexy, like the generous cleavage that spills out under the words "Silicone City" on the cover about Houston's breast-implant business (August i995). Others are scary, like the masked "Deadly Doctor" that represented a dangerously inept San Antonio physician (April 1987). Even salt-of-the-earth good ol' gals have made their mark on the magazine. In December 1992, for example, Jenny Glenn, of Childress, appeared on the cover to tout a story about big hair-after she sent us a snapshot of her special-occasion 'do, a masterpiece teased and sprayed into the shape of a cowboy hat. Women like Glenn have been a priceless Texas resource since the days of the Republic, and for thirty years they have enhanced Texas Monthly. As songwriter Willis Alan Ramsey put it, "them Texas women is Texas gold." NOVEMBER 1992 DECEMBER 1992 NOVEMBER 1993 AUGUST 1994 OCTOBER 1994 DECEMBER 1994 MAY 1995 AUGUST 1995 NOVEMBER 1995 DECEMBER 1996 FEBRUARY 1997 MARCH 1997 AUGUST 1997 SEPTEMBER 1997 OCTOBER 1997 NOVEMBER 1997 MAY 1998 SEPTEMBER 1999 MAY 2000 AUGUST 2000 SEPTEMBER 2000 MARCH 2001 APRIL 2001 MAY 2001 JANUARY 2003 OCTOBER 1974 JUNE 1975 OCTOBER 1976 DECEMBER 1976 DECEMBER 1976 MAY 1977 OCTOBER 1977 DECEMBER 1977 SEPTEMBER 1979 FEBRUARY 1980 JULY 1981 NOVEMBER 1981 FEBRUARY 1982 APRIL 1982 NOVEMBER 1982 MAY 1985 FEBRUARY 1987 APRIL 1987 NOVEMBER 1987 NOVEMBER 1988 JULY 1989 SEPTEMBER 1989 FEBRUARY 1990 OCTOBER 1990 FEBRUARY 1991 JULY 1992 ~~~~~~~~ By Anne Dingus in the Fair Use guidelines of the 1976 U.S. Copyright Act. info [at] singlearticles.com Powered by CommonSense |
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