Word: fish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before the week is out, Kleindienst is advising the President that Mitchell is certain to be indicted. The "big fish" has been hooked, and Nixon, Ehrlichman and Haldeman mistakenly assume that the Watergate probers will be satisfied and will quit casting for even bigger ones...
...fairy tales the prince sometimes saves his skin and pushes the plot forward by turning into a succession of wild creatures. Trapped on a cliff, he may become a magpie and fly away. Blocked by a lake, he is transformed into a silver fish who swims under the window of a disconsolate princess in time to catch the golden ring she drops and be turned into a prince again. Somewhat the same sort of trick is managed in this beautifully controlled first novel...
When Harry attempts to articulate a thought, he chokes on it like a fish bone. But he finally blurts out his heart's desire. He wants to marry Gert and have kids. This puts Gert into a sullen, belligerent funk. She laughs at Harry. He cannot bear to be laughed at. She can not bear to be wanted, needed and loved...
...Look, if they get a hell of a big fish, that is going to take a lot of the fire out of this thing on the cover-up and all that sort. If they get the President's former law partner and Attorney General, you know...
...possibly, Dean. You know, I am a small fish...