Word: muletas
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Next day Dr. Gaona put on a private show that aficionados were sorry they missed. To learn why one of Sunday's bulls had been rejected by the fighters as too tame, Dr. Gaona took a muleta, went into the ring with the bull. The bull promptly charged, hooked him, tossed him twice into the air. He punctured Dr. Gaona's natty pants and gored him. Aficionados read the details later in their papers: a wound four centimeters deep by seven long in the right cheek rear, another six centimeters long by four deep in the left cheek...
...Manolete, who is the master, can do, and which may get them killed one afternoon. When he has the bull under complete control, Parrita will incite the bull to charge, then look up into the gallery as the bull passes him, depending only on the feel of the muleta* in his hand to guide the bull and turn it. It gives you the same feeling that you get when an airplane goes into a spin...
Most matadors keep the muleta between them and the bull. Not Manolete. He will stand motionless, between the muleta and the bull. The bull will look first at the muleta, then...
Manolete, with a flick of the wrist, will transfer the bull's attention back to the muleta. Even if the bull, as it sometimes does, starts to charge toward the man, with his horns almost touching him, Manolete can stand there and put his life in the magic of his wrist. The Spaniards call this the "moment of jurisdiction...
...last day at Pamplona, working with his second bull, Manolete surpassed himself. It was a big bull, but the old master had it eating out of his hand. He did everything in his repertory, including four magnificent manaletinas, in which the muleta is held close to one hip, then passed over the bull's head and horns when he charges. He stood there with the muleta almost directly behind him, his body between the muleta and the bull, and it is only a slight exaggeration to say that if the bull had stuck its tongue out it could have...