Word: matador
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exhibited twelve years earlier. At Beame's request, stores, banks and most offices closed, reducing traffic on the city's streets. At the intersection of Park Avenue and 79th Street in Manhattan, an athletic young man wearing a cape and holding a pink flare controlled traffic like a matador handling a bull. On the other side of the island, traffic was directed on Riverside Drive by David Epstein, 17 He joked: "My mother told me to go out and play in the traffic, and here I am." Sixteen passers-by turned Coney Island's 150-ft.-high Wonder Wheel...
...Covering this story," says Stacks, "was a little like covering a bullfight from inside the matador's camp. The matador was talking, carefully, and the bull was unavailable for interviews. The result reveals the incredible number of Nixons that exist inside the former President. The shows are a kind of video psychobiography...
...sure sign of jazz's new vitality is the recent proliferation of clubs. In San Francisco, the Keystone Korner, El Matador and the Great American Music Hall are jumping nightly with finger snappers. Boston has a floating musical bistro called Jazzboat plying the harbor on two sold-out weekly cruises. Around New Orleans' Bourbon Street the crowds wander in and out of clubs that open onto the sidewalk. They can hear anything from driving Dixieland to the attenuated sounds of progressive jazz. In New York there are more clubs than at any time since...
...wasn't that the linksters were hooking or slicing their tee shots, because the clubs never made it out of the back seat of the 1975 Matador which was being used to transport half of the team to New Seabury Country Club on Cape Cod, the site of the scheduled match...
...malicious acts imaginable are acted out by Hemingways on Hemingways. And why do they hate each other. It's hard to fell, unless they've jealous of each other's success. Stardom seems to be the thenic here Hemingway could be a TV personality except for the few matador cliches and sexual puns thrown in and stardom is a tired subject...