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Hello gorgeous. The words are painted in pink above the kitchen sink of a rundown shed in the middle of Australia's Western Desert. As unlikely as it seems, this is the engine room of one of the world's most extraordinary art movements. Outside in the heat two decades ago, Uta Uta Tjangala painted his magisterial Old Man's Dreaming, which marked the Pintupi people's return to their land from the government settlement of Papunya. They brought with them to Kintore, 500 km west of Alice Springs, a lifetime of dreamings, but also something new: Papunya Tula Artists...
DIED. HOWARD KEEL, 85, beefy baritone who played opposite Betty Hutton, Doris Day and Jane Powell in such premier 1950s Hollywood musicals as Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Show Boat and Kiss Me Kate; of colon cancer; in Palm Desert, Calif. Keel rocketed to stardom as sharpshooter Frank Butler in Annie Get Your Gun, the first of a string of musicals he made for MGM. In the 1980s he revived his career on TV's Dallas as Clayton Farlow, the debonair tycoon who romanced matriarch Miss Ellie and confounded...
Over the past year, delegations of American oil executives have flown regularly to the Essider terminal and to Waha's desert oil fields, trying to discern how to re-enter Libya. Under a 1986 standstill agreement, the fields are still partly the property of the American oil companies, though they have been operated by the Libyan government. Diplomats in Tripoli and Waha workers say negotiations have bogged down, with the American oil companies demanding a controlling stake in the operations, in return for investing billions. That prospect is met in the oil fields with a mixed response. "Before...
...Riddles in the Desert Your story "What Saddam was Really Thinking" posed a head scratcher [Oct. 18]. You reported that Iraqi military morale sank when Saddam informed his senior officers that they would have to fight the coalition without biological, chemical or nuclear weapons. But the story also said that "military officers lied about their preparedness," which led Saddam to miscalculate Iraq's ability to deter an invasion. Was Saddam the duper or the duped? Ermes Culos Ashcroft, Canada...
...DIED. HOWARD KEEL, 85, barrel-chested star of stage, screen and television; in Palm Desert, California. A powerful stage actor of the 1940s and '50s, Keel's ringing baritone and cavalier stage presence won him critical acclaim in Hollywood musicals including Show Boat, Kiss Me Kate and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. As the popularity of musicals waned, he moved on to small parts in western, war and sci-fi movies. In 1981, Keel landed the role of oil-rich widower Clayton Farlow on one of TV's most popular nighttime soaps, Dallas. Although his nonsinging years on the small...