Word: matadores
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...fighters been so evenly matched. Twice before, they had traded the welterweight title on controversial decisions, one of them split; and in 40 rounds neither had been able to knock the other down. But they insisted that things were going to be different this time. "I am the matador," boasted Challenger Rodriguez, 26, "and I will kill the black bull." That brought accusations of race-raking, to which Rodriguez retorted: "I should call him maybe the blue bull?" Champion Griffith, 25, shrugged it off: "I'll knock him out in five...
...Aurora Bautista of Lorca's greatest play, Yerma. "We are unused to things Spanish." And unused, too, to the terrible directness of vision that illuminated Lorca's best writing, as in his poem Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias, in which he speaks of the death of a matador who died in a goring...
Clamoring promoters, elbowing newsmen and shrieking fans crowded around Manuel Benitéz, 26, known as El Cordobés, the newest sensation of the bullfight world. He has been a professional less than three years, was not even a full-fledged matador until last May. But this year he will appear in close to 100 corridas in Spain and Latin America- and make about $1,000,000, far more than even Manolete in his prime...
...adorned with a picture of Manolete. At last, El Cordobés put on his sequined jacket of violet silk, and the blonde emerged from the bathroom, where she had been softly crying. He flipped her on the behind with a towel, and she smiled. Then someone shouted, "Ay, Matador!" and it was off to the Plaza in a roar of police motorcycles...
...peasant, he was born in Cordoba, the Moorish city in southern Spain, and picked it for his matador's name. At 15 he entered village amateur events, determined, as he recalls it, to do or die for his widowed mother: "I told her, 'I will dress you in mourning or I will buy you a house.' " In 1960, his first professional season, he killed 72 young bulls-and ragged though he was, won 90 ears, 31 tails, 13 hoofs for his heart-stopping brushes with death. The next year he fought 109 bulls and was the idol...