Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clearly is, Dominguez refuses to admit it. "I stand before my canvas," he begins, shrugging his broad shoulders and rolling his round, bloodshot eyes, "and I pick up the brushes. Then things begin to happen all by themselves. Often I have started painting a woman and finished painting a bull. At the Riviera last summer I started painting sailboats. When the picture was finished I realized I had painted butterflies...
...hard." Hit of the show was his violet-toned portrait of Leda, a study both tender and exact. "I like to paint women," Muccini observes with a frown, "because of the great, curious attraction they have for me." He is little more articulate about his second favorite subject: "The bull attracts me as a theme in that it is always associated with a wall...
...wall is white and the bull is dark...
Jake LaMotta, middleweight champion of the world up to last week, is a stolid, truculent fighter with a good punch and a Gibraltar jaw. In 95 fights, deep-chested Jake has never been knocked off his feet. For this combination of qualities, Jake is nicknamed "The Bronx Bull." It was Jake's misfortune last week to defend his title for 13 rounds against Sugar Ray Robinson, the welterweight* champion, a man for whom no completely adequate nickname has yet been invented. Pound for pound, Sugar Ray is the best fighter now wearing gloves. Meeting him in Chicago Stadium, Jake...
Meanwhile, Sugar's long left fist had been poking out, flush and regularly, into the solid features of Jake the Bull; Jake began to show signs of wear. In the ninth, Sugar turned loose his right. From then on, the question was not whether Jake could win but whether he could preserve his ten-year record of never having been knocked flat...