Word: bullfights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954, they were not Hemingway's most creative years. Yet he was busy and active. He and Hotch went fishing off Cuba, journeyed to Paris and Spain, toured the bullfight circuit and ran with the bulls in Pamplona, hunted together in Ketchum, Idaho. All the time, Hotch was taking copious notes on his unique, complicated and often buffoonish friend...
...Bullfight. Outside of Bucharest, the Latin influence fades quickly into what visitors call "Turkish baroque"-a conglomerate of minarets and mud walls, soaring spiked fences and rambling cattle. Cluj (formerly Klausenburg) is Rumania's second city-with a population of 170,000 and an undeserved reputation as headquarters for Dracula, the world's first Batman. Heartily Hungarian in mood (it is the capital of the Magyar Autonomous Region), Cluj is an intellectual center that serves Bucharest in much the same way that Cracow does Warsaw, or Leningrad Moscow. There the works of Absurdist Eugene Ionesco get a frequent...
...bleached fishing hamlet between Málaga and Gibraltar; it now has three luxury hotels, a golf club, two cinemas, scores of bars and a burgeoning skyline of glassy apartment buildings. In nearby Torremolinos, there is standing room only on the beach on many a hot August noon. The bullfight season, which for a century ended in October, now unofficially extends throughout the year on the mild south coast, and in any season, in any city, there are likely to be as many tourists as Spaniards shouting...
...Thief! Clown! Animal!" screamed the crowds in Lima's Plaza de Acho, and then, worst of all: "Dancer!" Fumed Bullfight Critic Leonidas Rivera: "There he stood, the most famous matador in Spain, where he just set a record of 111 fights in a single season: a rattled young man trying to get it over with in as short a time and with as little risk to himself as possible. He did not improve things when he kicked the bull in the snout, and he looked simply grotesque when he charged his second bull with head lowered and butted...
...days later, while in Tijuana attending his first bullfight, Alpert hit on the idea of adding the sounds of the bullring and mariachi band to Twinkle Star. By suspending a microphone from a wire stretched across the center of the arena, he recorded the roaring oles of the crowd and tacked the sound onto the beginning and end of Twinkle Star. Alpert then scraped together $200, produced the record under the title The Lonely Bull. It sold more than a million copies, and Ameriachi was born...