Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Konstantin Berman, one of Moscow's favorite clowns, did his best to remedy the lack. He strutted into the ring dressed in mauve zoot-suit jacket and pinstripe trousers. "I will now demonstrate the Marshall Plan," said Berman, holding up a boomerang. The boomerang, he explained, was the dollar. When he threw it in the air, the missile split and two dollar-boomerangs returned to his hands. The crowd roared out its applause...
...roared again when Berman lugged a big unwieldy radio set into the ring. When he turned it on, the audience heard some barking dogs. "That," said Berman, "is the 'Voice of America.' Now for the BBC." This time the radio emitted the sound of grunting pigs. Then Berman reached into the set and pulled out a squealing young pig. "Churchill's heir," he cried...
...Second Tequila. So The Brave Bulls, Lea's first novel, is a war book of a kind that most critics forgot to expect. The Brave Bulls has nothing, ostensibly, to do with the war, but the sand of the bull ring in this book is also the sand of the Peleliu beaches; the black and powerful truth that fills the book is the truth of death that marines learned on Peleliu's Bloody Nose Ridge...
...number of things might have changed the course of the corrida at Cuenca on Saint Barbara's Day. For example, if Eladio Gomez, tight-fisted impresario of the little Mexican bull ring, had not taken a second tequila one morning he might never have signed up Luis Bello, the famous and expensive matador. If Matador...
...most important coincidence, however, is that just a week before the event in Cuenca the matador faces a moment worse than any he has known in the bull ring: his mistress and his best friend are killed in an auto smashup after spending the weekend together. Matador Bello, knowing in his bones that both have betrayed him, feels uncontrollable fear for the first time. At the gate of the Cuenca bull ring, his mouth is dry, his palms...