Word: matadores
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...Wore Red presents this unusual theater of war in compact scenes and entertaining dialogue. Says a matador out to impress the author with his knowledge of local history: "This is where the famous bandit Luis Candelas used to hide, Aline. He stole from the rich and gave to the poor -- just like your Robin Hat." The grim side of the job includes treachery and murder. To escape death at the hands of a Nazi strangler, Aline must shoot to kill. There are two happy endings to her story. She reduces the list of possible Himmler agents to a German countess...
...like the love she sings of earlier, Carmen is a "rebellious bird/That you can never hope to tame" and before long the lovers quarrel. Suddenly, Escamillio, the matador, appears. Escamillio also has fallen madly in love with the enchantress since meeting her before her flight from Seville. He challenges Don Jose to yield Carmen but Don Jose, determined to hold onto the last strands of his dignity, refuses. Only when faced with the news that his mother is dying back home does Don Jose leave the smugglers. But all the while he vows to come back and reclaim Carmen...
When he finally makes his way back to Seville a few months later, Don Jose finds Carmen, won over by the matador, at the bullring watching Escamillio in action. Beckoning to meet him outside, he begs her to be his love again. The closing aria is one of alternating pleading and denial in which Carmen, refusing to become a caged bird, falls victim to Don Jose's blind rage...
...visible at the same moment. Fifteen years ago, it was more or less obligatory for American critics to focus on the "radical" formal aspects of Manet's work and, in particular, on his use of flat (or at least shallow) pictorial space. Lone figures like The Fifer and Matador Saluting were posed against a background too flat to be a room, too brown to be outdoors; it was no more than a neutral backdrop, an exaggerated version of the depthless space behind Velásquez's portraits and some of Goya's. This concern for silhouette...
...force, you enlist that myopic master of outrageous disguise from Middlesex, England, Reginald Kenneth Dwight. In standard police clothing and cruiser, Hackett and Dwight then casually drive the 15 blocks to the Gateway Arch. Once backstage, Dwight looks around, then begins to peel the blue to reveal a black matador outfit trimmed with gold sequins, a gold belt and a pink sash, and his true identity for more than a decade: Elton John, 35. The crowd gets its man, but the police lose a future New Centurion. Says Hackett wistfully: "He looks pretty good in uniform...