Word: bullfighting
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...tolerates him, and at last-her cool melted by champagne-falls in love. The morning after Sellers wins his wager, he confesses all in an orgy of guilt. Raging, the seducee marches him at shotgun point to a bathtub full of cerulean stain. Bobo is last seen in a bullfight poster proclaiming his indisputably unique credentials as "The Singing Blue Matador...
Critics have contended that Rosi's message in Moment of Truth amounts to a thorough disgust with bullfighting. I, for one, think his target is more specific. Rosi is clearly enraptured with the gracefulness of the sport, and he takes pains to elaborate on the courage of Miguelin which allows him to rise above the other would-be matadors. Rosi also seems to enjoy the ritual which goes along with every bullfight and which accounts for the extraordinary beauty of his film...
...informalists, such as Luis Feito, present a modern vision of ancient agonies bred in the scorching sun. They convey a sense of decaying grandeur, human endurance and often bizarre imagination. Only 324 years before, below this newly established refuge of Iberian abstraction, Philip IV's noblemen staged a bullfight in the nearby Júcar River, charging the wading beasts from gondolas built in the shape of dolphins and sea monsters...
Lynda also turned down an invitation to a bullfight with the blithe explanation: "I've seen enough bulls down at the ranch to satisfy me." As one of her bemused escorts observed, "She is very much her father's daughter...
...Albas, Garrigues even managed to take Jackie on an incognita tour of the city, stopping off to visit the cathedral and the Alcázar without being recognized. Swinging into the spirit of the feria, Jackie donned the traditional comb and mantilla to accompany Garrigues to her second bullfight...