Word: dominguin
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...great bullfighters. There is ugly little Juan Belmonte, who developed close-in fighting around World War I because of his weak legs, inventing a style that made him seem a partner with the bull in a series of dance figures. There are shots of the hypnotic Arruza, the elegant Dominguin, the lady bullfighter, Conchita Cintrón, who fought on horseback...
Spain's steel-nerved Bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguin, in Panama to subdue some bulls, underwent a more unnerving ordeal-becoming a father for the first time. From the time that his wife, Italian Cinemactress Lucia Bose, felt her first labor pains until his son Luis Miguel Jr. was born 29 hours later, Matador Dominguin kept a weary vigil in the hospital. For 13 hours in the delivery room, he stood by in a pale green surgical gown, at last saw son Luis delivered by Caesarean section. Said big Luis: "If I were ever in a bullfight as frightening...
...Venezuelans, whose money flows as generously as the joy-juice in their wineskins, found Dominguin easily worth his fancy fee in the opening fight. His most brilliant kill was his second. He seated himself on the ringside barrier, perilously immobile, while the big bull from Mexico's famed San Mateo ranch charged three times. His gold-and-pink "suit of lights" flashing, Dominguin followed up with a series of classic passes in mid-ring and killed the bull with a single, perfect thrust, winning both ears and the tail. By the time the killer of more than...
Venezuela was a symbolic place for Dominguin's comeback; it was a bad horn wound there three years ago that had led to his retirement. "I've lost the joy of fighting," he explained at the time. A millionaire twice over, he traded the suit of lights for blue jeans and a checkered shirt on his 6,000-acre New Castilian estate, with its 20-room, tower-topped house, marble statue of himself, and an antique bed for a restless bullfighter-16 ft. by 7 ft. Over the gate he posted his new motto: "Do nothing...
Though he commands record fees, Dominguin, no spendthrift, does not particularly need the money; he returned to the ring, he says, out of "curiosity" and because "one does what one feels he has to do." At Maracay he found that he fought "with more pleasure than ever. Now I fight because I like...