Word: bullfighting
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Finally Willie was ready to make his big estocada (killing). Converting his traveler's checks, he headed for Madrid's annual "Benefit Bullfight," where El Cordobés was scheduled to face two bulls. Betting on first-round knockdowns, Willie collected a bundle. The first bull was so weak that his knees buckled as soon as he spotted the champ's cape. The second was obviously in the tank; he stuck his head in the sand and calmly awaited the knockout. While the oldtime aficionados in the stands whistled El Cordobés out of the ring...
Barnabv Conrad, 46, raconteur, painter, film maker and bullfight aficionado, has just published what has got to be the ultimate in do-it-yourself books. Title: How to Fight a Bull...
...word about the painting that appears in the photograph accompanying the article: Henry Koerner's picture showing me standing next to a bullfighter who is also a pagan priest is entitled The Sacrifice. I am depicted in the crimson robes of a Harvard doctor holding the Torah. Next to me stands the bullfighter with drawn sword. There is a woman dressed in white in front of a bird bath in which there is a severed human head. The meaning is that the archaic and the contemporary coexist in religious ritual, as do the conscious and the unconscious. Thus...
...that is what happens in an utterly mindless but totally endearing fairy tale, starring Omar Sharif as the prince and Sophia Loren as the girl. It was directed by Francesco Rosi, who is best known for his harrowing bullfight epic, The Moment of Truth. That anybody would bother these days to make so slender and fanciful a film is a miracle in itself; to do it with such a profusion of visual beauty is More than a Miracle. Which, by the way, is its title...
...viewer to follow the camera as it roams with the eye of a connoisseur across a canvas or a Greek façade. To dramatize the relationship of life to art, she has juxtaposed film clips of an Olympic sprinter with photographs of a runner molded in bronze, contrasted bullfight scenes with paintings by Goya and Picasso...