Word: bullfights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hotel-warmers attended a bullfight, at which the stocky Prince gamely assisted a matador and took a royal pratfall as the bull charged. No press cameras were permitted, but Princess Grace dutifully filmed her husband's moment of truth. "You should see what a terrible stare these beasts give you when you get close to them," confided Rainier breathlessly. At one dinner Elsa got one up on Hedda by taking over the piano to play Cole Porter tunes, accompanied by Rainier on drums. Then Ari bellowed the theme song (in Greek) from the movie Never on Sunday, while...
...calculated carnage was a minor incident in his tireless pursuit of sound. Audio Fidelity's Frey, 40, has already trapped a hurricane (Donna), recommissioned an obsolete steam engine, provoked a Great Dane to vicious complaint, wooed mewing seagulls with a boxful of chicken guts, eavesdropped at a bullfight. His long-suffering friends are even accustomed to having him turn up with his equipment to record their squalling, hiccuping children. Wild animals have been Prey's most difficult subjects ("The only possible way to get an alligator to cut loose is by tooting a B-flat French horn; they...
...folds her hands." Then, after several days of thinking about the subject-planning "the color, the composition, what should be left out and what put in," Bouche paints rapidly. "Painting," he says, "has to be spontaneous, to leap from the guts to the brush. It's like a bullfight. The man has 25 minutes to fight the bull. He can't think during that time, but all his life goes into the preparation...
...little mustache that sets it off in tiny, hairy quotation marks. From the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego he is almost as popular as orange soda, and in Mexico he is the greatest national hero since Pancho Villa. His movies make millions, his baggy-pants burlesque of the bullfight draws the biggest crowds at any corrida, his tongue-tied twaddling and self-swallowing sentences have added a new verb (cantinflear) to the Spanish language...
...avoid a mere travelogue, Lamorisse built his story around a Quixotic professor out to demonstrate that a balloon is the ideal means of transportation. At the last moment, his grandson talks his way aboard. The eventful flight-they follow flocks of exotic birds, drop in on a bullfight-is followed by a supply car on the ground carrying the professor's comic assistant, a Chaplinesque caricature of gadget-addicted modern man, whose wine bottle is hinged within reach and who uses an automatic feeder so that he doesn't have to stop driving. One of Voyage...