Word: bullfighter
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When Burroughs Corp. President Ray Macdonald recently spied a Dali lithograph of a bullfight hanging on an office wall, he jokingly ordered a secretary to paste the letters IBM over the head of the vanquished bull. For the normally straitlaced Macdonald, this was an unusual act. He may not be entitled to the matador's highest accolade, the ears, but he is fighting an impressive battle. Macdonald took charge of the Detroit computer maker half a dozen years ago, when it ranked a distant eighth to IBM. Today Burroughs is up to the No. 4 position in terms...
...from the drama of the bullfight to the drama of Casey Cowen, age 25, struggling comedian in New York City? "I like the irony in the title," says Liz Coe, "I see the comedian as synonymous with the matador, very much in an arena, and required to defend herself with the only weapons available. She has what can be likened to a sword--her aggressive sense of humor. Her cape is her sense of humor used as a disguise...
...plainclothesman draw his revolver and fire it repeatedly at a passing car," Jason D. Clay, a Harvard student who watched the melee from the heart of the fighting on the Melchor Ocampo highway. "Shooting was indiscriminate. But people in the neighborhood stood around watching as if it were a bullfight. Their interest seemed sadistic...
...some 30 plays for Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theater, and at the Royal Opera he has mounted 28 operas. That background ought to equip him for the badly needed revitalizing of stagecraft at the Met. "Opera is a popular art, and it should be as exciting as a bullfight," he says. Gentele has also directed eight creditable films (no international hits)! That fits in with Met President George S. Moore's desire to get the Met into cinema and video tape...
...locale is a presidential palace in a Caribbean republic in the early 1930s. His emphasis is on death, ritual and the family. The family is presented as a verbal killing ground where people prepare for real death. The ritual of death itself is a coup de theatre, a mock bullfight complete with toreador costumes in which the killers and the killed are all humans. The conceit works in that both Greek tragedy and the bullfight derive their heightened drama from an imminent awareness of death...