Word: picadores
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...their principal city is a fester of social and political unrest. José de Creeft, sculptor, is no exception. Born in Guadalajara, he studied in Barcelona and has been an art-rebel since his early days. He shocked and amused Paris with his many sculptural stunts: a picador astride, concocted with stovepipes, pot scrapers, an egg beater, some fuzz and the lid of a pan; a statue of a cat and a woman made into one (called La Femme-Chatte), and a wire ostrich. His taille directe method (the cutting of a sculpture directly from its material without rehearsals...
...titles of his wrought iron fire screens are "A Cock-Fight," "Man and Horse," "Wolf and Dogs," and "A Picador...
...time-honored but unpleasant feature of bullfighting, national sport of Spain, is that phase of the performance wherein a picador enters the ring, mounted on a horse of small intrinsic value, and cajoles the bull into attacking his horse after he (the picador) has dismounted. The horse, unarmed, nude, often blind, invariably suffers heavy losses in an encounter of this kind. The bull gores him until tired; a team of mules then drag his remains to cover...
...Newark, N. J., the orchestra played Carmen. A bull, goaded by the lances of the picador, careened madly about the ring. With graceful, measured step the matador advanced, rose on tiptoe, plunged his sword into the bull's breast, squarely between the shoulders. A bell rang. That bell was inside the bull. That bull was mechanical, controlled by an electric switchboard. Sportsmen were having their bi-weekly fun in a building on the banks of the grimy Passaic River...
...Barcelona, one Sebastian Anaro Anzarez, "a former picador," entered a hotel, ordered cold-turtle soup. The order was delayed. When the tureen at last appeared, Sebastian, tired of waiting, snatched it and "drained half its contents at a gulp." Then his eyes bulged, his face contorted. Nearly choking, he spat out a live turtle the size of a bright new peseta...