Word: iras
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...music he makes. Therein, in fact, may lie the real secret of his success: the perpetually hummable tunes of the 19th century waltz king after whom Rieu's orchestra is named. "When I want a melody/ Lilting through the house,/ Then I want a melody/ By Strauss," Ira Gershwin wrote in 1936, and six intervening decades of swing, rock and hip-hop have done nothing to diminish the truth of his words. Handsome fiddlers come and go, but Strauss, it seems, is here to stay...
...year Einhorn fled, DiBenedetto became a father, and it gave deeper meaning to his telephone conversations with Holly's parents. Moved by their grief, he became obsessed with the case. Especially after Ira's friend Harry Jay Katz baited him, "You'll never catch Ira. He's too smart...
Flodin held a healing party after Ira's arrest, inviting friends to come garden with her. Georges Raynaud, Einhorn's 86-year-old bridge partner, attended. He can't believe Einhorn did it, but his wife jokes with him; make sure your new partner isn't a murderer, she says. When not in crisis, Flodin, the dutiful Earth Mother, still demonstrates against a proposed nuclear-waste dump site nearby. Mayor Jack Jouaron, 68, loves it when she comes to city hall with her leaflets, flush with political passion. "For an old man like me, it was something to talk...
...Ira Einhorn, wearing blue jeans and a tunic made by Flodin, strolled into the Bordeaux courtroom Sept. 2 as if there had never been a body in the trunk or a pack of hounds on his trail or 16 years on the lam. He looked healthy, untroubled, his face ruddy. He played with a silver goatee and casually acknowledged Flodin, who smiled from the back of the courtroom, wearing a bright layered get-up that looked as if it were stolen from the closet of Pippi Longstocking. The Unicorn had had a long time to write himself a new speech...
STEVE LOPEZ traveled to France to follow the trail of hippie murderer Ira Einhorn. But the story begins in Philadelphia, scene of the crime and home to both its writer and D.A. Richard DiBenedetto, who spent 16 years tracking down his man. Lopez's dozen conversations with DiBenedetto yield a mesmerizing story that takes you inside the mind of the hunter and the hunted. The author of The Sunday Macaroni Club, a fiercely funny crime novel that features a similarly crusading attorney, Lopez pursued his own quest. It took him to Einhorn's lawyers in Paris, the murderer's former...