Word: unicorn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TOURISTY SITES: The Cloisters, Fort Tryon Park, Washington Heights. (923-3700): The Metropolitan Museum's tranquil uptown outpost houses illuminated manuscripts, ancient reliquaries, the Unicorn Tapestries and the rest of the Met's collection of Medieval art. The land, the art and even the view are courtesy of John D. Rockefeller (he bought up the stretch of New Jersey shoreline visible from the grounds so that no one could build anything on it and ruin his view...
...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 getup 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, but it must have been 16 years of writer's block. Painting himself large and important, vintage Ira, he dropped such names as Alvin Toffler, claimed he discovered "the Internet before the Internet existed" and said his life was given...
...past may have finally caught up with the Unicorn. Counterculture guru Ira Einhorn came a step closer to the dock Thursday after a French court agreed to send him to the U.S. to stand in a new trial for the murder of his girlfriend, Holly Maddux. It's a small step -- Einhorn's lawyer is already readying an appeal, a process that could take up to two years and go all the way to the French equivalent of the Supreme Court. But it's an important one for Maddux's family, who have seen the man they believe...
...been nearly 20 years since Philadelphia police, clued in by the awful smell, found the remains of Holly Maddux inside a steamer trunk in Einhorn's apartment. The Unicorn, as he liked to call himself, maintained his innocence -- and then went on the lam as a court prepared to try him for the grisly murder. Sometimes just hours ahead of police, Einhorn moved around Europe for 16 years. In that time, Holly Maddux's parents died, a court convicted the Unicorn of the crime in absentia, and one detective doggedly continued to press the case. And one fine June morning...
...decision is to extradite, the promised appeal could take years, and Einhorn will remain in French custody. If the decision is not to extradite, that's it. The Unicorn will walk into the cobblestone streets of Bordeaux with his lovely Swedish wife, the dark conspiracies that fill his head and whatever understanding he has reached with the ghost of Holly Maddux...