Word: matador
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...morning I leaped out of bed ready to break the news. Providence told me to do this." So, after seven professional years that earned him some $7,000,000 plus 1,000 bull's ears and 600 tails, the world's best known-if not best-matador announced that he was retiring from the blood and sand. It may be a wise move, since his fame came not so much from his skill with the cape but from the insane chances he took-and next season Providence might be on the side of the bulls...
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...
...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...