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That's why he receives a visit from Mrs. Evelyn Mulwray, who hires him to spy on her husband, the chief engineer of Warren Power, a company which runs the water supply into the city and surrounding areas from an outlying reservoir. A new city plan proposes the building of a dam to allow more irrigation and Mulwray opposes the plan on physical principles, a view which will soon prove fatal. The thematic importance of water escalates with the drought that the region currently suffers. Water is literally life and death in Los Angeles, and to a ruthless opportunist...
...granite monument is set in a raised clearing at the tip of the Fresh Pond Reservation in north Cambridge, next to the Fresh Pond Reservoir and near the intersection of Fresh Pond Parkway and Huron Avenue...
...disjointed, erratic plot follows two star-crossed, gun-toting lovers who spend two weeks killing more 5than 50 people across the country. While the original screenplay comes from the masterful Quentin Tarantino, writer and director of the tight, punchy stunner of a film, "Reservoir Dogs," apparently Stone changed the script so much that Tarantino only wanted to be credited with the original idea, not the script itself. I don't blame him for wanting to be as far removed from this fiasco as possible...
...movie is a replay of Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, a bloody study of macho alienation and Method posturing. Jean-Hugues Anglade, the French star of Betty Blue, La Femme Nikita and the forthcoming Queen Margot, bites off huge chunks of scenery as the nutty gang leader; his performance is a great geyser of bad acting...
...infected Yale researcher who originally helped show that this was a brand-new virus. That is still almost all scientists know about it. Says Dr. Robert Shope, director of the Yale virus lab: "We're reasoning by analogy to other arenaviruses that Sabia has a rodent reservoir. Once the reservoir and transmission are understood, it should be possible to take measures to control the infection. This is our ultimate...