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...north of "Toppy," Peterson and his crew - who include his sister and his father-in-law - doss down in a trailer-mounted bunkhouse in the roadhouse's forecourt. "We always stop for a few days if we come through here," he says. "It is like an oasis in the desert...
...Ocean to Eneabba northwest of Perth and across to the South Australian border, he'll be needing Shoo Roo. As Wilmot puts it, such distances are "unimaginable, with apparently nothing in between." But six months into his Kalgoorlie posting, the goldfields bishop's vision is changing. "I find the desert quite charming," he says. "And the more you educate your eye, the more you see. It requires a new way of seeing landscape...
...that in the distant future; he'd like to take his wife and two young sons back to Kenya for a holiday. "I'm very tired," he admits. "Much too much." Already he can do some resting on his laurels. Out here on the fringes of the Great Victoria Desert, where non-believers can see nothing but red earth and mulga scrub, he's made the Church a visible, vital presence...
...seedy vice dens, Las Vegas is going global. Macau, Britain, Thailand and even squeaky-clean Singapore--which until this year had banned the G-rated business of selling chewing gum--are being bombarded with billion-dollar investment offers from the same companies that made a strip of Nevada desert synonymous with over-the-top entertainment. The sudden urge to export Vegas-style casinos stems as much from regulatory reform abroad as from limited growth opportunity at home. Indeed, after MGM Mirage announced plans last month to build a casino in Macau, Merrill Lynch predicted that the development would will...
DIED. CARLO DI PALMA, 79, cinematographer and maestro of movie lighting; in Rome. Working with director Michelangelo Antonioni, he obliterated the palette of realism by painting the grass yellow in The Red Desert and greener than green in Blow-Up, creating two of the most influential color films. In the mid-'80s, he ushered Woody Allen into a visually rich period with subtle lighting in such films as Radio Days and Hannah and Her Sisters...