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Died. Cayetana Ordonez, Nino de la Palma, 28, matador famed for his pure rodeno (classical) style; in an automobile accident; near Seville, Spain...
...used to be a bullfighting tradition that, just as no white jazz band can match the primitive rhythms of a Duke Ellington, so no truly great matador was ever born north of the 40th parallel of latitude (about 30 miles south of Madrid), or south of Gibraltar. This tradition of Andalusian superiority suffered a heavy blow with the rise of the Madrileno Marcial Lalanda, the greatest money-maker in the ring few years ago. It suffered still more when a series of once despised Mexican matadors began coming to Spain, winning fat contracts and great salvos of applause.* Spain...
Into the small hours of the morning last week Antonio Sanchez sat with his friends in a Madrid café, clutching his umbrella, sipping pale glasses of manzanillo, and arguing about the bullfighters' war. Antonio Sanchez once was a matador but it had been many a year since he clipped a coleta in his hair and stepped into the ring. Finally the gathering broke up and Antonio Sanchez walked home to save money. Near the central market he heard shouts and a great splintering of wood. Mad as a bullring champion was a snorting beef bull that had escaped...
...Spain proudly echoed Don Modesto's opinion. Biographer Baerlein goes even further, puts Belmonte on a level with Cervantes and Goya. Readers who liked Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon will want to read this rambling Hispanophile book about Spain's No. 1 modern matador...
...netted him 35,000. Credited with revolutionizing the art of bullfighting, Belmonte made it more dangerous. He worked closer to the bull than his predecessors, and he went to the bull wherever it happened to be (previously certain parts of the arena had been considered impossibly dangerous for the matador). While he fought with what bullfight fans speak of as "emotion," he aroused even more emotion in the gasping spectators. ". . . He avails himself of no advantage in the fight and at the end of it the horns go past him at the same two millimeters distance as at the beginning...