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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CASTELLON DE LA PLANA, Spain: Basta, already. Matadors are threatening to shed their traje de luces, turn in their capes and leave the bulls alone if the Spanish government doesn't lighten regulations in the ring. The bullfighters are threatening a walkout over current regulations that say a breeder faces fines of up to $65,000 if examinations after the fight show that they have shaved their bull's horns. Shaved horns skew a bull's ability to estimate distances and makes them more vulnerable to the sword. But union leaders say such scrutiny is unwarranted and are urging that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ole!-- No Way | 3/1/1997 | See Source »

CASTELLON DE LA PLANA, Spain: Basta, already. Matadors are threatening to shed their traje de luces, turn in their capes and leave the bulls alone if the Spanish government doesn't lighten regulations in the ring. The bullfighters are threatening a walkout over current regulations that say a breeder faces fines of up to $65,000 if examinations after the fight show that they have shaved their bull's horns. Shaved horns skew a bull's ability to estimate distances and makes them more vulnerable to the sword. But union leaders say such scrutiny is unwarranted and are urging that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ole!-- No Way | 2/28/1997 | See Source »

...course, recognizing an addiction is the first, most important step on the road to recovery. "I just said, 'Basta!' " explains the host, whose mix of tabloid breathiness and self-aggrandizement discerning readers will have already identified as belonging to Geraldo Rivera. Last week Rivera publicly vowed to clean up his eight-year-old daytime show, long criticized--or celebrated--as one of TV's tawdriest. How would this work in practice? "We're not going to go into the cycle where if you do hookers on your show, we'll do hookers and their daughter hookers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: OUT WITH THE SLEAZE | 1/15/1996 | See Source »

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