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...Matador, by Barnaby Conrad. Latest addition to the small shelf of good books about bullfighters (TIME, June...
...Matador, by Barnaby Conrad. Latest addition to the small shelf of good books about bullfighters (TIME, June...
Anyway, before today's first match was five minutes gone the attendants were whisking one fellow out of the ring. He was not the matador, the man who engages the bull, but one of a squad of agitators who dart around the arena harrassing the bull, armed only with a cape. If it appears that the bull will make contact with one of them, the man sprints behind one of four barricades situated around the sides of the arena. This particular agitator got caught out in the middle, where the bull bounced him around twice on his horns, then crushed...
When the agitators finish playing patsy with the bull, the actual business of dismantling the animal begins. A man with two gaily festooned spears attempts to insert them between the bull's shoulder blades. He does this several times, so that by the time the matador carries the fight to the bull with a sword long enough to row a boat, the bull is charging around with five or six of these spears sticking...
...work of the matador is the only artistic aspect of the fight. All matadors seem to be slim, tanned young men wearing tight-fitting gray stripped clothes with their hats set at a jaunty angle. You admire their graceful movement as you would admire any athlete with rhythm and coordination. Several matadors did not even move their feet as the bull charged the cape; they merely pulled the cape aside, arched their bodies, and let the bull brush past. Finally, the matador lines up his sword as he would a billiard cue and goes in for the climax. According...