Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afternoon of Aug. 28, 1946 when Manolete was fatally gored, and some said that Manolete was killed because he was trying to equal Dominguin's performance. Feeling rose high against Dominguin; he was even labeled a murderer, and a menacing crowd awaited his next appearance at the Barcelona ring. The police advised him to leave town, saying they could not be responsible for his safety. But 15 minutes before the fight, Luis Miguel drove up to the ring. He got out of his car some distance from the gate, meticulously adjusted his embroidered cape upon his shoulder...
Beyond heaving an occasional rhetorical rock at his fellow artists for misunderstanding him, Salvador Dali has been strangely quiet for the past six months, living in seclusion in his villa at Port Lligat, north of Barcelona. Surrealist Dali has been working, and last week he was ready to unveil what he regards as his masterpiece. It is a large (7½ft. by 4⅔ ft.) Madonna which Dali calls in Latin Assumpta Corpuscularia Lapislazulina (The Bodily Assumption in Blue). At the summit of his elongated Madonna is the head of his wife, Gala, gazing heavenward; her body is being...
There are a few errors of less significance. Not all bullfighters are "slim, tanned, and young." Rafael Ortega, still going strong in Bilbao and Barcelona, is fat, pasty, and forty-five. The ear and tail awards have nothing to do with crowd reaction. They are awarded by the President and judges. To the crowd, the President and Judges often seem deliberately perverse...
Director Balanchine's European advisers clucked when he scheduled jazzy, lowbrow Pied Piper for decorous Barcelona. But the Spaniards gustily swallowed every ounce of humor. Jerome Robbins' controversial The Cage was temporarily banned in The Hague because of its unusual theme of spiderlike viricide, but few Dutch hairs were turned when it was finally performed. Audiences almost everywhere agreed that one ballet was tops: oldfashioned, toe-tipping Swan Lake...
...because the traditionally critical audience gave it its best reception; in Paris because "it was Paris," and Florence because the stage was so good. They suffered more than the usual number of sprains, and used up more than $10,000 worth of toe slippers on rough stages elsewhere. In Barcelona they found the life expectancy of a pair of slippers was 20 minutes...