[The film deliberately contrasts appearance with reality - the normally-romantic, glamorous setting of canals in Venice is really the setting for the mundane collection of garbage.Nothin"" at all.Just a little ol"" spastic colon and that""s all." Maggie ells her admiring father-in-law: "That""s the best birthday present of all."After getting a ride back home with Maggie, the crochety old Big Daddy, an immense rotund man, has a new lease on life with a clean bill of health: "Well, I""m gonna live, Maggie, I""m gonna live." He cuts in on Stan during the dancing, and then grabs and squeezes the behind of Stan""s bridesmaid girlfriend.A.city""s "Water and Power" Company."Mrs.Mulwray" insists that his expensive services are no problem: "Money doesn""t matter to me, Mr.Gittes."Jake begins his investigation of the Mulwray case by listening to public hearings discussing the latest waterways project - a proposed Alto Vallejo Dam and Reservoir." Career soldier First Sergeant Milton Warden (Burt Lancaster) realizes that the new soldier was demoted from corporal to "buck private":Prewitt, you was a corporal in the bugle corps.