Word: muletas
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...vulgarity is only a minor concern of the critics; what shocks them is that, unlike Picasso, he has never really learned the tools of his trade. He handles the cape like a housewife flapping a bed sheet and uses the bright red muleta as if he were flagging down a train. Worst of all, he is so inept with the sword that about the only way he can be sure of killing the bull is to shoot it. He had to stab one bull 16 times this month before it would die, and twice within the past two weeks...
...quasi-fictional Miguelin has no dream of glory at the outset. A spunky, mop-topped Andalusian peasant, he flees the arduous life on his father's farm, drifts into that gypsy band of hot-eyed hopefuls who haunt every Spanish bull ring, courting fame with a scarlet muleta. Before a bull's horns end his short unhappy career, he attains wealth, loneliness, a retinue of greedy hangers-on, a house for his mother, a fast convertible and faster women-one a sleek, actressy adventuress named Linda, who takes her matadors at their peak, and is played...
...breath with Manolete, Belmonte, Domenguín, Ordóñez, or Paco Camino, whom experts regard as Número Uno today. They call El Cordobés a novice, sneer at his clumsy work with the capote, the large cape, and his limited repertory with the smaller muleta; they say he is a hacker with a sword, killing slowly and without style. Far from being Número Uno, says one Mexico City expert, "he is a little clown, a tourist's bullfighter." But one thing everyone agrees on is El Cordobés' courage...
Mano o Mano. In life, Juan Belmonte's triumph was a victory of utter weakness. He stood fast in the path of the bull, directing its charge with a close sweep of his crimson muleta, winding the bull around him, said Ernest Hemingway, "like a belt-his right leg pushed toward the bull, in that bent slant which will be copied but never made truly until another genius comes in the same twisted body." Twisted, small, weak, Belmonte survived with courage that was more than a match for his inability to move with the bull. "My legs were...
Recovering in European hospitals after dire prognoses: Spain's Matador Número Uno Antonio Ordóñez, 29, who stumbled over his muleta at Malaga to receive his almost annual goring (a 6-in., 14-stitch groin wound), but, following a one-hour surgical mano a mano with death, was expected to return to the ring by month's end; and West Germany's pugnacious pacifist, Evangelical Church Pastor (and World War I U-boat Skipper) Martin Niemoller, 69, who, while vacationing in Denmark, suffered near fatal injuries in an auto crackup that killed...