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...southern French town of Vallauris, famed Painter Pablo Picasso, topped off by a matador's hat, cheered the festivities with his old friend, France's oddball Poet-Playwright Jean Cocteau. Because French tradition opposes bullfighters actually killing their beasts, Vallauris was deathless, but Spanish-born Aficionado Picasso seemed to enjoy the fray just as much as if the arena were awash with gore...
Besides being one of Spain's greatest painters, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was an ardent aficionado of the bullfight. He sometimes signed his name "Francisco de los Toros," and he claimed to have faced the bulls himself in his youth. At 69, after a lifetime of watching the recurring drama of blood, grace and courage, Goya set out to do a pictorial history of the bullfight. The result was a magnificent series of etchings called La Tauromaquia...
Four years ago Writer Stockly read another man's story which changed his life considerably. The story was Tom Lea's The Brave Bulls. "I thought there must be something to this bull fighting," he said, and began to read more on the subject. "I became an aficionado by literary means." Then he did it the real way, took six months' leave of absence to tour the bull rings of Spain. He now takes his summer vacations in the winter to see the fights in Mexico...
...waistband; a third became so excited that he threw away his sword and tried to throw his becerra to the ground. The crowd got into the act; howling volunteers from the stands jumped into the ring, flinging capes on the sand. But after the wild melee, one old aficionado said: "This was a big day. It took an American to bring back Alcalá's enthusiasm...
...Hacienda Pasteje, famed bull-breeding ranch near Mexico City, he spent a memorable Sunday. Years ago, wearing the short Andalusian suit of an aficionado práctico (practicing fan), Plaza had fought bulls as an amateur in Ecuador. Now a non-practicing fan, he sat in a jeep on rolling fields, to watch the artful passes at the young beasts made by his old friend of the cape, Jesus ("Chucho") Solorzano. Leathery Bullfighter Juan Silveti rolled up, slapped the President on the back, roared: "How's it going, Plaza old boy?" Plaza grinned. "I have a lot of friends...