Word: armillita
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...Heroes. For several reasons this is a big season in Mexican bullfighting. One reason is that two of the best espadas (swordsmen) in modern history are now performing in Mexico. One of them is Fermin Espinosa, called Armillita, now 33, who has killed some 2,000 bulls since he was 16. The other is Silverio Perez, 27, a daring matador who deliberately risks death every time he faces a bull and who last year was the idol of aficionados...
Their Arts. In all his years of fighting Armillita has never been gored; he knows his bulls, is cool in the ring and takes no chances with bad bulls. His work is always skillful, always graceful, sometimes brilliant. And he accepts the homage of the crowd as his proper...
...spare the handsome hide of Matador Power, Armillita, the Babe Ruth of Mexican matadors, bats for him in the bullfight scenes. Last week Armillita was doing double duty. While U.S. cinemaddicts watched his classic cape-work in Blood and Sand, Mexicans beheld it in an equally new but quite different picture - a Posa Films production starring Mexico's fun niest comedian, Cantinflas. Its title: Neither Blood Nor Sand...
...Lorenzo Garza, did not like the look of this bull. This bull did not charge straight and clean, coming into the cape with a sharp whoosh. This bull did not charge at all, the cabron, and this day the crowd did not like Lorenzo Garza but much preferred Armillita, who worked in the decadent style of the imitators of Belmonte and (Lorenzo Garza thought) was not of sufficient worth to exhibit himself mano a mano with El Magnifico in the Plaza de Toros in Mexico City. Lorenzo Garza spat in the sand. Then he drew his sword from underneath...
...best known Mexican matadors in Spain are Fermin Espinosa, "Armillita Chico,'' a precise and elegant swordsman, and the more fiery Jesus Solorzano, famed for his slow and dangerous veronicas...
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