Word: chuchito
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...story "I know, understand, believe in." His own novel is out of the question, he declares: the censors would make mincemeat of it. Evidently influenced by Hemingway (Rex Ingram's favorite author), Mars in the House of Death traces the short life of a famed bullfighter named Chuchito, illegitimate son of a Spanish nobleman and a gypsy dancer, who grows up among Andalusian fighting bulls and Barcelona harlots, falls in love (innocently) with his half-sister while having a passionate affair with the U. S. wife of a Mexican general, is fatally gored in time to prevent a worse...
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