Word: matador
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Happy & Foamy. What really turns the paying guests out is a hint of romance. A case in point was the plight of Washington Schoolteacher Barbara Sobocinski, 30, who had met a young matador, Antonio Montes, in Spain last summer. Since then, it has been one impassioned letter after another from Antonio, his latest concluding: "The sun, the lover of Seville, never falters. If you long for the sun of Seville, why do you not come to see it at Christmas? Do you not long for me, as well...
...GIRL FROM U.N.C.LE. (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Searching for three missing scientists, U.N.C.L.E.'s girl (April Dancer) poses as a matador-smitten jet setter in "The Horns of the Dilemma Affair." The Latin American Thrush leader (Fernando Lamas) captures April and forces her to play toro to his matador...
...foremost a social critic, and I believe that modern bullfighting for him serves as one example of a malaise which he observes in present-day society. The thrust of his film is directed not against bullfighting per se, as evidenced by his highly sympathetic portrayal of an idealistic old matador, but against the kind of professionalism which Miguelin represents...
...favorite tricks, that of patting the bull on the head and that of executing passes at close range while seated on the ring barrier. This kind of stereotyped strategy may please a sensation-seeking crowd, but it is not the art that bullfighting can be. The old-style matador, by contrast, constantly innovated to suit the particular bull he was fighting...
Rosi, in other words, is attacking the Horatio Alger type of matador like Miguelin. Such a matador enters the ring for the first time late in adolescence and proceeds to tailor his style to the crowd. He has not grown up on a bull farm and he has little knowledge of the animal he must fight. Thus when the first wound comes, there is only the threat of the poorhouse to sustain him in the ordeal of his comeback...