Word: matador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...annual bullfight-for-fun fiesta in the southern French town of Vallauris, famed Painter Pablo Picasso, topped off by a matador's hat, cheered the festivities with his old friend, France's oddball Poet-Playwright Jean Cocteau. Because French tradition opposes bullfighters actually killing their beasts, Vallauris was deathless, but Spanish-born Aficionado Picasso seemed to enjoy the fray just as much as if the arena were awash with gore...
Magnificent Matador (Billy Butterfield; Essex). About as noisy a record as possible, containing an overstimulated chorus chanting, "Matador! Matador!'', a brassy orchestration of the type usually reserved for grand finales, and Ace Trumpeter Butterfield giving his all. From the film of the same name...
...Allied Artists has signed Jose Ferrer for Matador, the Barnaby Conrad novel based on the life of Spain's famed bullfighter, Manolete...
...sense of power, its money that produces a kind of evil freedom, its masculinity ("The deferential male is an object of derision to criminal woman"). Much of this first novel's wayward charm lies in its passing epigrammatic remarks. Sample, on a TV M.C.: "He was a matador who played human beings instead of bulls." On reporters: "They have, every two or three years, the satisfaction of being told to find the truth . . . This is why newspapermen are content to wear dusty gray suits and to have love affairs which are 95% conversations in the back rooms of bars...
...power project, Brazil's witty President Café Filho (TIME, Dec. 6) stopped off for a look at a cocoa plantation and suddenly found himself hotfooting it across a field just a few horn's-breadths ahead of a bull that had escaped from a pen. No matador, Café Filho, with aides puffing along in his wake, was the first to make it to the safety of a nearby hut. The runner-up was his military adviser, General Juarez Távora. After the snorting bull was lassoed, Sprinter Café Filho. still gasping for breath, grinned...