Word: matadors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BULL Gets the Matador Once in a Lifetime--a great title for a play, don't you think? Suggestions of living drama set under some Iberian sun, grace and artistry, pageant and danger, a la Hemingway. When the expected-unexpected happens, the chance all the crowds really come for: the bull gets the matador and the arena roars...
...from the drama of the bullfight to the drama of Casey Cowen, age 25, struggling comedian in New York City? "I like the irony in the title," says Liz Coe, "I see the comedian as synonymous with the matador, very much in an arena, and required to defend herself with the only weapons available. She has what can be likened to a sword--her aggressive sense of humor. Her cape is her sense of humor used as a disguise...
...herself is no novice at handling the dramatic sword and cape. She began both writing and directing plays in high school, and has studied playwriting under William Alfred. The Bull Only Gets the Matador Once in a Lifetime numbers as her fifth product. Beyond this, she has done extensive directing, including productions of Joe Egg and Look Back in Anger at the Loeb last year, and two one-acts, Black Comedy and The Public Eye, last fall. In May she returns to the Loeb to direct the Harvard Dramatic Club Production of Moliere's Imaginary Invalid...
...market went from 3.4% to 3%. During the price freeze, when car sales in the U.S. posted a record, purchases of Ambassadors, Hornets and Javelins fell below 1970 levels. On the other hand, in the first ten months of 1971 Gremlin's sales doubled, and the medium-sized Matador is a strong seller. To improve its sales, American must strengthen its dealerships. So far this year 262 dealers have dropped out, reducing American's network to 2,031 showrooms. American's biggest handicap is styling problems. Consumer Reports noted that, among the new subcompact cars, the Gremlin...
...largest gate ever recorded for a nontitle bout. Ali, who forsook his limousine for the subway so he could accompany the "little people" to the fight, turned out in red trunks and white shoes with dangling red tassels ("Bulls don't like red," he explained). Like a matador, he toyed with Bonavena through the early rounds, circling his lumbering opponent and stabbing him with jolting lefts. Oscar, a 6-to-1 underdog, kept wading in, pounding away at the body until, by the eighth round, Ali was noticeably slowed. In the ninth−the round Ali predicted he would...