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Is Dallas architecture still so bad? A critic’s assessment, 40 years after David Dillon’s landmark essay. Photo illustration by Jeff Meddaugh/Staff Designer(Photo illustration by Jeff Meddaugh/Staff Designer) Four decades ago, in May of 1980, Blondie was at the top of the charts, The Shining was winning at the box office, and the Dallas skyline was a mainstay of national television. It was there in prime time every Friday night, accompanied by that indelible propulsive score: the bleached grass between the Trinity levees giving way, with the camera’s rise, to a gleaming glass city of p...