Word: bullfight
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Though Pacote is still swaying slightly at bullfight time, his mouth and his spirit are ash-dry. He watches young Tano Ruiz work deftly with the first bull, hears the crowd shouting in approval. Let Tano thrill them. He, Pacote, will "coast all the way," retire to a good safe life of raising bulls in Cordoba. His own first bull is a fiasco. Pacote trips on his cape before making a single pass. As he staggers to his feet, the bull deals him a glancing blow that knocks him down and out. As the doctor works feverishly to bring...
Between these highlights occurs a bullfight where the matador is gored to death, an auto race against time in which Reggie zooms, at 250 miles an hour, across the sands of Esperanta with his engine on fire and crashes it into the sea, an inquisition trial which took place several centuries before, a wild gypsy dance, and a circus stunt in which a girl in an evening gown walks on her hands and giggles all at the same time...
...When CBS was stuck for a commentator in its early telecasts of racing, Vanderbilt handled the first few shows capably. "I got a good notice from Crosby," he says. And during an early acquaintance with Ernest Hemingway, he became adept at handling the tablecloth when Hemingway decided to play bullfight. Vanderbilt has achieved an enviable balance between not having enough to do to keep him interested, and having so much to do that it keeps him scrambling. And he has managed what James Branch Cabell points to as the secret of the gallant attitude, "to accept the pleasures of life...
Private Life: Married, has six children. Seldom misses a bullfight (no mean amateur torero himself) or horse race. Likes weekends at one of his farms. "Every Friday night I resign," he says, "and resume office Monday morning...
Hits of the show are twelve geometrically patterned pictures of bullfights, which Dominguez painted in three weeks. Done with a few simple lines and clear colors, they recall bullfight scenes painted by Dominguez' good friend, Picasso. One well-disposed critic got around their obvious derivation by reporting that Dominguez "has fully developed a theme which Picasso merely sketched in earlier years." Another wrote, a little more accurately, that Dominguez' new paintings are "works of extreme precision and perfect elegance...