Word: torero
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...bull came, he swung his cape in a wide arc, making the bull hurtle past him through the air. He ended one series of passes by tossing aside his cape and kneeling with his back to the bull, which stood transfixed. Sombreros began to rain into the ring. "Torero!" yelled the fans, "torero, torero, torero!" He was awarded both ears of his second bull, and walked twice around the ring as a blizzard of waving white handkerchiefs broke over the whole arena. Said one oldtimer. "The most extraordinary bullfight in Mexico." "I've never seen anything like it," said...
Pacote is half-drunk. For a year, his courage has been "going fast like a handful of water dribbling out of ... cupped palms through the fingers." At 29 his face is scarred and drawn, his hair streaked with white. A flashier torero, 20-year-old Tano Ruiz, has the crowds in his pocket and has goaded the old pro into a last defense of his crown. As Pacote belts away whisky to blunt the knife of fear in his stomach, his hand-me-down society mistress taunts him as "a picknose peasant ... a shell...
Private Life: Married, has six children. Seldom misses a bullfight (no mean amateur torero himself) or horse race. Likes weekends at one of his farms. "Every Friday night I resign," he says, "and resume office Monday morning...
...Madrid bull ring one afternoon last week, the torero was as clumsy as Sancho Panza, and the bull as listless as Rosinante. The aficionados booed, hissed, threw programs and cushions into the ring. Police tried in vain to quell the uproar. No one had seen anything like it in Spain for twelve years-since Franco came to power and banned bullring demonstrations, a beloved Spanish custom. Howled one spectator: "We want bulls for our money...
...bullfighter, Vollard had a gold-embroidered toreador suit made to his own measure, turned up at Renoir's studio in costume. He even offered to shave off his beard, but Renoir said that would be unnecessary: "You don't suppose you would be taken for a real torero, if you did? All I ask of you is not to go to sleep while you are sitting...