Word: procuna
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...point is made by describing a day in the life (and. with the help of flashbacks, a life in the day) of Luis Procuna, a 33-year-old Mexican matador who in the last 18 years has killed 1,324 bulls, and has survived innumerable gorings. On the day of the corrida, the matador gets up early to wet a finger to the wind. "If the wind lifts your cape," he explains, "you've got the bull in your lap." Then he has breakfast: nothing heavier than consomme and an orange, so that the surgeon, if need...
Another is Luis Procuna, who has fought only three bulls this season and each time has been awarded (by acclamation) not only the right to cut off one or both ears of the slain bulls, but both ears and the tail (very high approval...
Sunday before last Procuna got this award for the third time in a bull fight in which he appeared with the idolized Silverio. Silverio won some applause for his handling of the first bull, then did badly with the next two (perhaps because the temperature was below freezing), and got whistles and catcalls from the crowd...
...Procuna did some brilliant work with a brave, black Piedras Negras bull named Meloncito. Stepping out with the muleta before the kill, Procuna stopped to salute a friend in the stands. As he did so Meloncito charged, tossed him, goring him in the thigh. He leaped to his feet smiling, played the bull brilliantly and then killed it. The crowd went mad as he limped out with his white pantaloon and stocking red with blood. At the infirmary they found his wound was four inches deep...
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