Word: torero
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...thousand would-be toreros milled about, practicing footwork and capework (usual cape: a shirt). Finally the first bull appeared, took a look around and lit out after the aficionados. A few, emboldened by rum, turned to meet him. As soon as the bull had dealt with them, he went after another yelling group. Once he got too close, and a hard-pressed torero leaped into a pond convenient for just such an emergency...
...with tens of thousands of bags of cement before letting 48,699 enthusiastic aficionados swarm in for last week's inaugural corrida. Besides being the world's largest, the ring is the world's fanciest, will have indirect illumination for night fights. Spain's great torero, Manolete, spry again after his recent goring (TIME, Dec. 24), starred at the opening, was paid $25,000 (U.S.) for killing two bulls...
Some 25,000 eager aficionados paid scalpers up to $200 a seat for the thrill of watching Spain's finest torero, slight, 28-year-old, chinless Manolete (born Manuel Rodríguez,), make his first appearance in the Mexican bull ring. Outside Mexico City's Plaza de Toros, some 200 Federal troops, 50 tear-gas squadmen and two fire-engine crews restrained the thousands who could not get tickets...
Devil Montanez started his professional career four years ago, when he was 18. Eager to see the world, he sailed for South America, stayed there long enough to become champion of Venezuela. Weary of beating humans, he decided bulls were more his style, set out to become a torero. Bullfight season in Caracas, Venezuela starts with the famed "race" for novice bullfighters in which bulls, being chased through the streets to the bull ring by mounted picadors, are harassed by neophyte toreros all trying to reach the arena last, i.e., closest to the bulls. Devil Montanez won the race...
...Stradivarius Quartet return to Cambridge today after an unexpected long interval because M. Pochon has been suffering from a bad wrist. They will play in the Fogg Art Museum at eight o'clock the following programme: Mozart's Quartet in E flat major, Kochel No. 428; La Oracion del Torero by Joaquin Turina; a Scherzo of Glazounow; and the Beethoven Quartet, Opus...