Word: ordonez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hemingway took time out from research on a new book to answer an invitation from the Soviet Union's Literary Gazette. Would Papa come to Russia with Ike? "Why should I go to Russia while there is bullfighting in Spain?" If the Soviets would also invite Matador Antonio Ordonez (brilliant torero son of the bullfighter portrayed in The Sun Also Rises), Hemingway said he might reconsider...
...soon as I can stand. I don't want the fans to think I'm afraid of the bulls." Last week, with the horn wound in his right thigh still unhealed, Dominguin went into the ring at Bilbao for another mano a mano with boyish Antonio Ordonez, 27, his brother-in-law, in their current series to decide who is bullfighting's el primero (TIME...
...bull for the picadors when it suddenly charged, sank a horn into his lower abdomen. Struggling up off the sand, Dominguin was doggedly advancing again on the bull, dripping blood, when his helpers scooped him up and carried him to the infirmary. True to the ritual of their craft, Ordonez killed Dominguin's bull, while doctors were examining the battered matador and deciding that he would not be able to resume the mano a mano "for 20 or 30 days...
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...
...blooded sometime Playboy Luis Miguel Dominguin, 33, and boyish Antonio Ordonez, 27, Dominguin's good friend and brother-in-law, met last week in a mano a mano (duel between two bullfighters instead of the usual three) to determine which is Spain's best. In the Valencia arena, Ordonez swiftly dispatched his three bulls, showed the lethal grace that has. won him 42 ears as trophies from 26 fights this year. Making a comeback after a recent three-year retirement, Dominguin (57 ears in 29 fights this year) dispatched his first two bulls with some trouble...