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...accumulate in a village, the conscience-stricken grownups must do something about it, to wit, launch a headhunting raid. With solemn care and deliberation, the warriors and elders work out a plan of campaign. Scouts are sent into the interior to select a victim-village. They explore its approaches, creep close to its huts, study the habits of its people. They try to eavesdrop on conversations to learn their victims' names...
...young women crowd into war canoes and paddle stealthily up the Digoel River. They land at a prearranged point and are guided by scouts to the doomed village. That night the elders whisper incantations to make the attackers invisible, and to make their victims sleep deeply. Then the hunters creep close to the huts and wait for dawn...
...result, Joe's San Francisco is a lonely place. Its deserted streets are eerily illuminated by glowing jar-shaped street lights ("my trademark"); deep shadows surround ghostly, luminous walls. Empty cable cars creep along phosphorescent tracks. To get his subjects, Oneto prowls San Francisco's hills and back streets, goes back night after night to verify troublesome details. On his jaunts, Oneto keeps an eye peeled for old-fashioned houses, especially those with plenty of gingerbread: "I'm only interested in San Francisco architecture before the [1906] fire." A good example of Oneto's preference...
...African Queen (Horizon; United Artists) is the name of a leaky, 30-ft. steam launch that wheezes along a remote little river in German East Africa, delivering mail and supplies. When World War I begins to creep into the jungle, Skipper Humphrey Bogart noses his boat into a quiet backwater, intending to sit out the fighting with a case or two of Gordon's gin. But he takes on an unwelcome passenger, Katharine Hepburn, a prissy, "skinny old maid" who has other ideas. Determined to strike a blow for King, country and her dead missionary brother, Hepburn browbeats Bogart...
...Field will add more details to this chronology. It may also predict the future. At present the earth is enjoying a warm spell, with the northern regions more hospitable than they have been in 200 years. But no one yet knows whether the ice is gathering again to creep down out of the north...