Word: bullfighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...School. Then he moved hopefully to Broadway. "As a playwright," he remembers, "I achieved the rank of hotel night clerk at 22, nightward attendant in a psychiatric hospital at 25, a magazine copy boy at 28." It was while he was a copy boy (at TIME) that his play Bullfight became an off-Broadway...
There is a school of thought which holds that bullfight bores are more deserving of ball-bat anesthesia than jazz bores, but this school is wrong. A bullfight bore may re-enact Manolete's death spasms, but a jazz bore will replay the same Charlie Parker record, with contrapuntal commentary, until his woofer melts. The public ear has been grievously bent, and therefore any novel about jazzmen that is fresh, authentic and ungummed by cultism is an achievement...
Having told the Constituent Assembly what to do, Sukarno last April took off on a two-month round-the-world tour. He got an honorary degree in Communist Warsaw, saw a bullfight in Mexico City, by last week was happily roaming Los Angeles in a sky-blue uniform, kissing Joan Crawford, lecturing college professors at U.C.L.A. ("We have split the atom. We are going into space. We can control agriculture. We can control weather. We can control all save the evil hearts...
...Ever Heard? Baron Clements saw his first bullfight when he was ten, and "right then I decided that what I wanted to do most was fight bulls." Writing in the sixth grade on his life's ambition, he drew an F-minus and a stern note from his teacher: "Baron, I expect you to stay in this afternoon and write a reasonable theme. Who ever heard of people these days being bullfighters...
...Working a bull feels natural to me," he explains. "It's as natural as driving a car. Dominating a huge, powerful animal gives me the greatest feeling in the world. You can compare a bullfight to a Shakespearean tragedy. Someone always gets killed, sometimes a torero and almost always the bull, and I can't see a thing in the world funny about it..That's what I like about it-the drama. You can taste it when you're in there with a good bull...