Word: breath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Courage & Cornadas. El Cordobés' many critics consider it sacrilege to mention him in the same breath with Manolete, Belmonte, Domenguín, Ordóñez, or Paco Camino, whom experts regard as Número Uno today. They call El Cordobés a novice, sneer at his clumsy work with the capote, the large cape, and his limited repertory with the smaller muleta; they say he is a hacker with a sword, killing slowly and without style. Far from being Número Uno, says one Mexico City expert, "he is a little clown...
...chest, fever and coughed-up blood. Often the victim is known to have had some blood-vessel disorder, such as phlebitis. In the creeping insidious form, there is no such history of clotting disease to alert the doctor. The patient usually complains of nothing more precise than shortness of breath or fainting, though in slightly more severe cases he may collapse completely on exertion. What has happened, said Dr. Goodwin, is that small blood clots have blocked some of the narrower blood vessels leading to the lungs. The patient can still inhale and exhale just as much...
...priest (the novel never makes clear in what country or what faith) and never questioned his vocation until one day he hears the confession of a veiled married woman yearning for a sexual love that her husband cannot supply. As the woman's words and fragrant breath filter through the grille of the confessional, Giovanni is strangely excited. "I did not yearn to rest again in the safety of God's embrace, in his light and peace. I wanted to burn in the fire of love...
...politician's forced modesty. "I'm in the line of these people," he says, comparing himself to great evangelists of the past, like St. Augustine and St. Francis of Assisi. But he quickly adds, "I'm the least of them all. . . . I shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath with them. . .I'm not worthy. . . ." The words have the hollow sound of a statement which once was passionately sincere but which had been eroded by constant flattery until its speaker had come almost to disbelieve...
...looked at the peep show cautiously, concluded it was a gag, not a trend. They were wrong. Women saw in the new decolletage the surest way to a man's eye and promptly began pulling the dresses off the racks. January's Paris collections took a deep breath and plunged to deep C level. The bosom is not only in; it is just about...