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Paret's manager, Manuel Alfaro, assailed Referee Goldstein for failing to stop the bout sooner. "I was screaming 'Stop it! Stop it!'" said Alfaro. -"But he let the fight go on." Ringsiders, positioned near Paret's corner, could recall no such shouts...
...magazine's nudes are reproductions of old masters-Bordone's Venus and Cupid, Manuel's The Judgment of Paris-and remarkably chaste: for the true voyeur, either Playboy (60?) or New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (admission free) houses far fleshier work. Some of Eros' articles are cribbed from history: De Maupassant's Madame Tellier's Brothel, which first wowed Parisians in 1881; poems by the Earl of Rochester (d. 1680), their mild eroticism heavily disguised in battered olde type. Votaries of contemporary vulgarity got their kicks mainly in the titles...
...fickle generosity. He plays favorites with a vengeance, seemingly contradicting his own heart, as he shelters and feeds his grown children without being able to demonstrate the affection he so clearly feels for them. These four are the offspring of his second wife Lenore, who died when the eldest, Manuel, was 8, Roberto 6, Consuelo 4, and Marta...
...great raconteur, Manuel reveals himself as an intelligent picaro, with a tragic marriage which ended when his wife died and his mistress married someone else, leaving him with children whom he refuses to care for. Before this trauma, he had lived through a mixed childhood, marrying at 15, but still fatally attracted to his first love. After it, he attempts to start over as a laborer in California, only to return to Mexico City and a life of shady dealings on the open market, gambling, and drink...
Consuelo, the elder daughter, is the only one of the four who attempts to rise on the social ladder. Like Manuel, she finished grade school, but she goes on for two years of commercial training. In all her jobs, however, her bosses try to seduce her; it is a coworker, Mario, to whom she gives herself, but she does not love him. Her efforts to raise herself to bourgeois respectability make her an outcast at home, while her attractiveness to hungry employers makes her feel unable to continue working...