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Minutes later, Dominguin's No. 1 rival was out on the sand displaying his own classic style with sword and cape. Young Antonio Ordonez, 27, moved his bull closer and closer with dangerous, kneeling rodillazos. Finally the animal was slowed to a befuddled walk, drawn to the muleta as though hypnotized. Up in the stands, Ordoñez' aficionados shouted: "Si, tú el primero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECTACLES: iQui | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

Every time the vicious young bull charged, the tall, blonde girl from Texas spun him past her high-waisted Andalusian pants with a flick of the crimson muleta. When finally she leaned over the bull's lowered horns and killed him, the crowd at the Ciudad Juárez ring went crazy over Pat McCormick, the U.S.'s first professional woman bullfighter. As she paraded around the arena with the bull's two ears that the admiring judge had awarded her, a fan called: "If you could only cook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Brave Blonde | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

...first kill, after performing the whole classic repertory of passing the charging beast, he stunned the aficionados with a new pass of his own. He started it daringly, with his back to the bull, the red cloth muleta to his right. Moving the cloth and pivoting, he pulled the animal clear around him, letting the bull's left side scrape his body as the sharp left horn grazed his chin. Clean sword work followed, and the crowd awarded him both the bull's ears and its tail, symbolic of a top performance. For his second fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: New-World Fighters | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

...debate among local bullfighting aficionados erupted last night over the size and shape of the muleta. John M. Steadman 1L, former chairman of the Yale Daily News, and Caldwell Titcomb '47, former 5G, took issue in letters to the CRIMSON with Lawrence Wilde '53, who had claimed a mullets was the wooden prop used by the hero to support his cape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-OCD Chief, Locals Fend Over Finer Points of Bulling | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

...believe Mr. Burgheim has put his foot in his mouth when he refers to "the swarthy Segura (who) resembled a matador burying his muleta." One doesn't burry muletas any more than one buries baseball bats. They are wooden props used to hold the cape with one hand so as to distract the bull while one kills him with a sword held in the other hand. --Larry Wilde...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PARDONME, SENOR | 2/12/1953 | See Source »

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