Word: picador
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Ricardo Garcia had been the sensation of his year, had won his niche in the matador's hall of fame by his "immortal quite" (series of passes with the cape drawing the bull away from the fallen picador). But at the height of his fame & fortune, he was so badly gored in the lung that he had to quit for the season, later announced his permanent retirement. He continued to live at matador pace, scattering money like crumbs to many a hungry bird. His mistress, Marilena, was Ricardo's greatest expense and biggest trouble. When she saw there...
...raven for hair, cherries for lips, shells for ears, a lily for a hand, a swan's neck. A crucifixion scene by one Samuel Hershey included newshawks, a microphone, a vendor of hot dogs and miniature crucifixes, a few indolent policemen. Independent José de Creeft showed a picador made of stove pipes and scrap iron. Independent Lucienne Bloch, daughter of Composer Ernest Bloch (see p. 48). showed a panel of photographs of the destroyed Rivera-Rockefeller murals. A picture of a clock stopped at 9 o'clock referred to the execution of Sacco & Vanzetti...
...regular corrida six bulls are killed (20 minutes to a bull) by three matadors working alternately with their own subordinate team of picadors and banderilleros. When the bull first comes in he is played by banderillero and matador with capes. Then the mounted picadors enter, the bull charges them, often kills the horse but always gets a wound in the shoulder-muscle from the picador's lance. Next, four pairs of banderillas (barbed wooden shafts) are stuck into the top of the bull's neck by the banderilleros or, with musical accompaniment, by the matador himself. Then the matador takes...
...bull-breeder, a Madrid police official, a Matador (sword man), a Picador (lance man), a Banderillero (dart man), a member of the association of Bull-Fighting Impresarios, a sports writer, a veterinary surgeon, a season-ticket holder at the Madrid Plaza ring, all under the chairmanship of Madrid's Director of Public Safety, have been sitting as a high national committee to consider and meticulously represcribe the details of Spain's great national pastime, bull-killing...
Recently Sculptor de Creeft, now middle-aged though vigorous, arrived in the U. S. He brought with him a large collection of his sculptures which were last week exhibited in Manhattan. The picador, the ostrich, La Femme-Chatte, were absent; Sculptor de Creeft no longer seeks to shock. Instead, he exhibited his taille directe with rosy granite, and black onyx shaped for shape rather than excitement -gigantic heads, writhing nudes, an orchid of beaten lead. He wants to be respectable. He has married his onetime pupil, Alice Carr of Seattle. He wants commissions, he hopes to sell, make money...