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...Gittis gets curious. He goes looking for water, the blue water that goes rushing illegally out of the city reservoir every night. He finds it, gets soaked when it comes charging down a dry canal. Walks out. Shot of his feet. Curses his leaky Florsheims. And then up walks director Polanski as a short little tough with a foreign accent, who puts a knife in the detective's nostril and makes a little slice to remind him not to be nosey...
Among its vast assets, the U.S. retains a remarkable reservoir of talent (see portfolio beginning next page). Will all that talent find release, a chance to make a difference...
...Nicholson, sporting a sort of drowsy panache, appears as a private investigator named J.J. Gittis, hired to tail the Los Angeles water commissioner, who is suspected by his wife of being unfaithful. But the commissioner is soon victim of a highly unlikely accident, dead of a fall into a reservoir drain, his lungs full of salt water. This plunges Gittis, too, way over his head, into a network of personal and political degradation...
...Angeles, the Big Quake finally happens, sundering the foundations of the giant Hollywood reservoir. In San Francisco, the world's tallest building, a 136-story glass tower, explodes in flames. Vast armies of ants relentlessly eat their way across the great southwest desert. Billions of giant bees swarm malevolently through the steel canyons of New York City, and somewhere underground the survivors of nuclear warfare find their cavernous retreat invaded by hordes of vampire bats...
Like O'Toole, Flym is at Northeastern because of its student body. He is attracted to a law school where half of the students are women. Also, he says, "because people are older and have been through a variety of occupations, they bring a reservoir of energy and resources that other law schools lack." Flym says the cooperative program is particularly valuable because it "equalizes the power of students and faculty. The co-op also means I need to work harder, because students demand more. With legal education based on actual experience, the student can judge for himself the value...