Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anti-Girl, Pro-Bull...
...torera from Texas, who quit school to assassinate an undersized bull in a Mexican bull ring, I suggest a job in an abattoir. Ole, huera...
...Middle Eastern or Oriental languages, the third secretary gets his diplomatic education. He also learns that his hat should be a black Homburg or a bowler from Lock, his tie subdued, his shoes black. It helps to have a rich wife. For the guidance of young Third Secretary John Bull and his wife, an official in the Foreign Office service four years ago wrote a confidential manual of procedure. It was distributed, but hastily withdrawn. Sample advice...
...Avoid silence, especially at dinners. "On sitting down, Mr. Bull should without delay engage one of his two neighbors in conversation ... Be careful not to fall into a vacant stare...
...keeping with the Guthrie-Gerard ideas, the first-act set was starkly simple, most of the workers' costumes drab blacks and greys. Carmen herself was allowed some strikingly low-cut dresses, but-hallowed tradition or not-no red rose. Also missing: the awkward parade of supers into the bull ring in the last act. Guthrie and Gerard show a balcony full of spectators craning at an imaginary procession to an unseen ring. Moreover, they let the betrayed Don José catch up with Carmen in the tawdry hotel suite of Toreador Escamillo, instead of at the gates...