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Often spotty and frequently disjointed, the film traces the history of bullfighting from Rome's Circus Maximus to Ava Gardner, examines a matador's life from his eating habits (little or no food before a fight so that he can be operated on immediately if a goring lays open his belly) to his occupational hazards (an estimated 10% of bullfighters are killed in the ring, 13% are crippled, 40% are wounded at least 20 times in their careers...
...nerved Bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguin, in Panama to subdue some bulls, underwent a more unnerving ordeal-becoming a father for the first time. From the time that his wife, Italian Cinemactress Lucia Bose, felt her first labor pains until his son Luis Miguel Jr. was born 29 hours later, Matador Dominguin kept a weary vigil in the hospital. For 13 hours in the delivery room, he stood by in a pale green surgical gown, at last saw son Luis delivered by Caesarean section. Said big Luis: "If I were ever in a bullfight as frightening as that...
...conceivable eventualities of a bullfight are crammed into the story, completely obscuring the character of the novillero who achieves his consummation in death. Besides this retailing of tauromachian local-color, Fisher afflicts his readers with a stiff, unrealistic dialogue (including some unconvincing, garrulous pre-fight speeches by the matador). Add to this a number of much mouthed moralizations on the art and significance of bullfighting and you have a long story which can easily be skipped...
...said was phrased in barroom lingo. I was talking to myself, not to all who would listen, though certainly into my cups." According to Critic Williams, Grand Trouper Bankhead magnificently steered Streetcar back on the track after that. "To me she brought to mind the return of some great matador to the bull ring in Madrid, for the first time after having been almost fatally gored, and facing his most dangerous bull with his finest valor . . . When the play was finished [on its Manhattan opening night] I rushed up to her and fell to my knees at her feet . . . Such...
...launched by 600 U.S. fighter planes and light bombers based in 20 attack areas of Western Europe and the United Kingdom. Atomic shells would be fired by the Army's 36 atomic cannons strung along the central European front. Other atomic warheads would be hurled aloft in 75 Matador guided missiles, 28 Honest John and Corporal rockets...