Word: corridas
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...were fighting in the same corrida at Linares on the afternoon of Aug. 28, 1946 when Manolete was fatally gored, and some said that Manolete was killed because he was trying to equal Dominguin's performance. Feeling rose high against Dominguin; he was even labeled a murderer, and a menacing crowd awaited his next appearance at the Barcelona ring. The police advised him to leave town, saying they could not be responsible for his safety. But 15 minutes before the fight, Luis Miguel drove up to the ring. He got out of his car some distance from the gate...
Warm Reception. Now 49, his body scarred by repeated gorings and 20-odd corrective operations, Franklin knows that his career as a top matador is finished. But like all good fighters, he hates to call it quits. His first practice corrida at Alcalá was quite a comedown for a matador once the toast of two continents, but Franklin did not seem to mind. In fact, he was delighted with his pupils, even though some of them reacted to the tension of their first appearance by lapsing into a series of low-comedy antics...
...Barnaby Conrad's Matador, a novel about bullfighting fine enough to share the shelf with Tom Lea's The Brave Bulls (TIME, April 25, 1949). Like Ernest Hemingway, whose hard-packed style accents every sentence in Matador, Novelist Conrad is steeped in the classic ritual of the corrida. (In 1945, at 23, he shared an afternoon's billing in the Seville ring with his tutor, famed Juan Belmonte, and won the bull's ears for his performance.) But his real theme is the odor of fear and courage...
...show was La Corrida, though the picture's composition was halfheartedly cubistic and for all its elegant Etruscan overtones the drawing was weak. The color, which Marchand pretends not to care about, was magnificent; as a colorist he had cleared the wall...
...Chevalier's 7,000-word translation, the phrase "as complicated as a Rube Goldberg invention" became "more complicated than existentialism." A "hoot-nanny" emerged as a corrida (i.e., bullfight). Rose's untranslatable "razzle-dazzle and razzmatazz" was altered into the equally untranslatable "plaisanter sur des plaisanteries plaisantes." Rose's laconic account of the end of a riot at his Texas Centennial Exposition ("The brawl was over") was elaborately transformed into "My savage cowboys became as well-behaved as [Paris] street urchins on the day of their First Communion...