Word: matador
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...surprised to see "Manolete's" name under the photograph of an unknown bullfighter executing a "manoletina." This pass is supposed to be an invention of his, but I am sure the identity of the "matador" was yours...
...bull caught up with Manolete (Manuel Rodríguez), Spain's No. 1 matador (TIME, July 21), at a benefit performance. His horn bit three inches into Manolete's calf, "destroying a muscle," the doctors said. But the great man stayed right in there until he had dispatched the beast, whose ears, as a token of popular esteem, were presented to him in the infirmary...
...story is less novel. Mario (Ricardo Montalban), son of a famed Mexican ex-matador (Fortunio Bonanova), has talent in the bull ring, but his heart is in his music. When all Mexico accuses him of cowardice, his twin sister Maria (Esther Williams) doubles for him and, in a slather of veronicas, saves his reputation. He returns the compliment by saving her life. After that he proceeds to the conservatory with father's blessing. Sister is happy with her young man (John Carroll), and everything ends in a fiesta. Blonde, blooming Esther Williams is about as Mexican as Harry Truman...
...neon-lit vivacity. The streets are choked with double-decker buses, sleek, new blue trolleys and shining U.S. cars. One foreign diplomat lamented: "I managed to get a Packard, but nothing less than the biggest Cadillac makes anyone here turn his head." Bull rings are jammed; top Matador Manolete can pull down the official equivalent of $12,500 for an afternoon's work. The number of prostitutes has hit an alltime high...
...jets, weak flames shaped like slices of melon. In summer he saw the savage boredom of village life in Brunete on the baked plain, where young men crucified bats whose wings tore as easily as old rags. He saw a starved boy in the ragged tinsel of a matador waiting, with the face of a mystic, for a bull's charge in a drunkenly howling village square...