Word: corrida
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...answer is no. I don’t know who could really say whether two years in a feedlot and a quick metal rod to the head is better, overall, than three years running free and 20 minutes of pain. Neither, however, do I agree with Hemingway; during the corrida that I attended (a corrida includes six individual fights), I saw very little of art and honor, but a lot of slaughter...
...American football fans this scenario is, these days, just a Heidi Bowl nightmare, for bullfighting aficionados across Spain it's suddenly a bad dream coming true. This summer, for the first time in its 51-year history, the state-run Spanish Television Corporation (TVE) has not broadcast a single corrida...
...something more exquisite are less excited about him." At the Las Ventas fight, Alfredo Peña, a veterinarian from Madrid who regularly attends bullfights, agreed. "Bullfighting is like painting or poetry - it's an art. And though Mehdi is good, he's not yet an artist." The corrida (tournament) highlighted Savalli's weaknesses as well as his strengths. He displayed the showmanship for which he is known - passes on his knees, cape tosses over the shoulder - and killed his first bull with aplomb. But his second opponent proved feistier, and Savalli partially missed his target, leaving a sword dangling...
...cease-fire 45. Its stock exchange will merge with Frankfurt's 50. "Peek-__!" 51. Mai __ (rum drink) 53. Word on a $1 bill 54. Gore says Bush is stuck in a cold-war -- warp 55. __ lane (rush-hour convenience) 56. Tiger's pocketful 57. Merlin, for one 58. Corrida cry 59. Vortex...
...from the back row and pic the bull back far along his spine you will slam sandbags to the kidneys and pass a wine poisoned on the vine you will saw the horns off and murmur the bulls are ah the bulls are not what once they were The corrida will end with Russians in the plaza Swine, some of you will say what did we wrong? And go forth to kiss the conquerors NORMAN MAILER New York City...