Word: bullfighter
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SPAIN'S pavilion is a gentle interlacing of courtyards and corridors filled with surprises. The attractions include prized paintings of old and modern masters (most spectacularly, Goya's Majas), an impressive showing of young avant-garde artists, a display of Dali's jeweled doodads, bullfight movies, and folk dancers...
Clamoring promoters, elbowing newsmen and shrieking fans crowded around Manuel Benitéz, 26, known as El Cordobés, the newest sensation of the bullfight world. He has been a professional less than three years, was not even a full-fledged matador until last May. But this year he will appear in close to 100 corridas in Spain and Latin America- and make about $1,000,000, far more than even Manolete in his prime...
...optimistic prediction: "There will be no more war." Briand clung tenaciously to the Foreign Ministry, explaining: "If I leave, the rightists will get a minister of their choice who will return to a policy of force. This will make the fortune of the German nationalists." At tending a bullfight in Spain, Briand reacted like a polished diplomat, observing, "Suppress the matador, the picadors and the toreadors and let me go into the arena with a little bundle of hay, and you will see that I'll make peace with the bull...
...Hadley is not one for insulating young minds from un-American sights and sounds that may seem somewhat shocking. The sheer gruesomeness of a torture chamber, she feels, may inspire children with more respect for and curiosity about history's tortured. She feels much the same way about bullfights. She advises parents to explain the mythological and historical background of bullfighting to any children "capable of understanding and reason" and then take them to a major corrida. "Whether your children are horrified or think it enormously exciting, I think, in light of its past history and present pageantry...
...abrasion, contusion to concussion, laceration to impalement, dismemberment to disembowelment. We are witness to animals in an arena; and we watch the performance of picadors, banderilleros, and matadors, complete with a climactic, mortal moment-of-truth. The play is, in fact, perhaps best analyzed in terms of the bullfight. I shall spare you this, however, and simply remark that Albee has failed to give his play the aesthetic and artistic from of the bullfight...