Word: novilleros
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Despite his grumbling, Maestro Rodolfo Gaona, 62, was having a good time. To meet his complaint that the bulls had been puny lately, there was a new rule against bulls weighing less than 990 pounds. And the novillero (novice) he considered the season's most promising-blue-eyed Rafael Rodriguez-was making his debut that Sunday afternoon in the big time...
...years ago Little Joe was just a grocery clerk. He made his bullfighting debut as a novillero (apprentice) last August. Said the dean of Mexico City's bullfight critics, "Here is the novillero of the season-of all seasons." After his first kill, the crowds shouted that he should be given both ears and the tail-the highest mark of approval...
Handsome Pepe, wed in 1942 at San Diego to blonde Mignon Summers, onetime Powers model, aroused President Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Rio's ire early this year. Enthusiastically, the six-foot novillero of the bull ring and artillery lieutenant (V.M.I.-educated, Fort Sill-trained) had started to stump Ecuador in opposition to administration candidates for Congress. Opening at Riobamba, Pepe and cohorts were moving on to Ambato when a platoon of corabineros popped up and arrested them. Given 24 hours to get out of Ecuador, stubborn Pepe balked and a 40-soldier escort literally carried him over the border...
Pepe's Kill. Handsome in his olive vestido de corte, his sideburns shadowed by his flat-crowned sombrero, José Maria proved himself a good novillero. His verónicas were trim and clean-cut. He bravely ventured a few faroles, swirling his cape overhead in the pass. Greatest applause and the bull's ear went to a comedian, who arduously dispatched a bull calf with toothpick horns to the accompaniment of a conga. The greatest burst of catcalls and jeers rose at the eviction of a teenage boy who leaped the arena fence and had beginner...
...Spain, where he has appeared in the main arenas of Seville, Madrid, Jerez, Tauromach, Franklin is still not rated a full-fledged matador. In Mexico he remains a novillero (novice...