Word: matador
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American Motors' sporty intermediate Matador has been given an even more rakish look...
...cannot explain it," says one driver, in discussing why Referee Laerte Chaves engages in such a risky avocation. "It's like asking a matador why he likes bulls." Chaves himself could not have phrased it better; he recently lost several teeth when the 26-lb. ball struck him square in the whistle...
...star, had promised to marry his girl friend if she bore him a son? Not exactly. It was undeniable that pretty, young Marline Rayasse last month did bear him a son, Manuel II (they also have a four-year-old daughter). At the baptism, the 36-year-old ex-matador said that the birth of his son "has persuaded me that I must marry." As to the date, however, he was skittish. "If one morning when I get up," he said, "I have mischievous ideas and she feels the same, we will go to the church...
...known for his near-definitive interpretation of Boito's Meftstofele. In Hoffmann, he imbues Coppelius with the grace of ballet, which he studied to equip himself for opera. Treigle's Dappertutto is all bluster and crafty swagger, perhaps reflecting the lessons he once took from a Mexican matador. His Dr. Miracle demonstrates the hypnotic effect of the most stylistic, crafty and flexible set of arms and legs in all opera. As to his voice, a huge cannon's roar, there is seemingly no way that it could come from that sunken chest - but it does...