Word: bullfighters
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...fans who made their way to the Bogota bull ring one day last week to see a Mexican troupe of women bullfighters looked forward to nothing more than a mildly diverting afternoon of watching prudent girls avoid listless bulls. Actually, they were privileged to witness one of the high comic moments of Bogota's bullfight history...
Disarmed Bandit. At 78, Goya got permission to travel to France for his health. He left behind half a century of masterpieces that embraced not only portraits and war etchings but also gay nudes, spooky fantasies, still lifes, street scenes and dozens of bullfight pictures. With six action pictures illustrating the Spanish ballad of Fray Pedro and the bandit Maragato (in which the priest disarms the bandit and shoots him in the pants), Goya had done his bit toward inventing the modern comic strip. In Bordeaux, he joined a group of Spanish exiles, one of whom described him as "deaf...
...mountain village of San Martin Texmelucán, near Mexico City, three were killed and 100 injured when sunny-side bleachers collapsed under the stomping of excited bullfight fans...
...first notes of the bullfight music sounded, one of the fans hurled a stocking filled with flour toward the arena, hit a Mexican army lieutenant squarely in the face. A soldier who tried to arrest the culprit quickly became a target for a volley of empty bottles and oranges. "It's all in fun," screamed the charcoal makers, "don't arrest our brother." At the height of the uproar another soldier, who had just put down a marijuana cigarette, calmly unslung his Mauser, fired point-blank at the yelling fans. An aficionado dropped with a bullet behind...
...prodigious researcher, Lea had dipped into Mexico to learn about the Spanish origins of U.S. cattle. He came back with some dramatic bullfight sketches and material for a fine first novel, The Brave Bulls (TIME, April 25, 1949). Later, he visited Southwestern ranches and Midwestern stock farms, spent a solid week on the killing floor at Swift & Co.'s Chicago stockyards. The resulting pictures struck Texans as not only good but mighty authentic. Looking at a Lea branding scene last week, one grizzled cattleman remarked: "You can smell the smoke from the burned hair...