Word: bullfighting
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...book's shortest chapters, and its only bitter one, is a bullfight. The band blasts Cheek to Cheek; the stunted bull comes out, soils himself and trembles when at length he comes to "sense the purpose of his presence"; tries to escape, is tortured into the open ring and dealt loathsome, blundering wounds. Finished off with a dagger, he kneels gently like a child in prayer and his head sinks to earth. The band plays Cheek to Cheek and another little bull trots...
Craning his neck to get a ringside view from the fighters' aisle at a Mexico City bullfight, inquisitive Biographer Emil Ludwig got the shock of his life when an angry bull lunged out of the ring, pursued him hotly down the passageway...
...year-old daughter Betty, who does a song and trucks to the jazzed-up Habanera while her mother pounds a little red piano. Captain Billy revised a scene in which Carmen consorts with smugglers in a cafe, made the chief smuggler a Greek restaurant proprietor, played by himself. Bullfighter Escamillo announces that he is "the greatest bull-thrower in all Spain," while Carmen begs him to "come to the Zoo opera to see my understudy." Climax is the bullfight scene (usually off-stage noises), in which the bull, accompanied by the announcement: "Here comes Ferdinand," appears munching a carnation. Instead...
Ever since she made her first appearance in Mexico last summer (and killed three bulls in one afternoon), Conchita has been first in the hearts of Mexican bullfight fans. Only 17 years old and weighing 108 lbs., she looks like a beautiful porcelain doll. In the ring she is not only exquisitely graceful-especially on her prancing, high-stepping mount-but absolutely fearless...
...Tall, heavily-built, dark-skinned and square-featured, Hemingway is still a bullfight aficionado (fan), likes also big-game fishing, hunting, plays tennis regularly to keep his weight down. Divorced (1926) from his first wife, he was remarried a year later to Pauline Pfeiffer, then a Paris fashion writer for Vogue, has had by her two sons, Patrick and Gregory Hancock. Since 1930, he has made his home at Key West, living there in a thick-walled, Spanish-built house, its garden somewhat incongruously inhabited by peacocks. His 30-ft. launch El Pilar he uses for casual pleasure jaunts, trips...