Word: aficionado
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days a year the arena is rented out to cowboys, clowns and corn peddlers, does the drama-starved aficionado still throw garbage at the only bullfight to come along...
Many listeners complained about the faulty acoustics, saying that the music merely added to the din. A thoughtful aficionado objected that classical pieces and jazz were "too involved" to be enjoyed over a meal. Another House member warned against "trying to satisfy all the appetites at once...
...great detail the circumstances surrounding a spectacular criminal career. Mr. Graves has chosen the story of Dr. William Palmer, who was accused of doing in fourteen people, the majority by poison, and who was publicly hanged in 1856 after being convicted of poisoning John Parsons Cook, a fellow aficionado of horse-racing...
Bullfight's pretentions should please Cambridge's legion of dining hall aficionados, for they are informational pretentions. As is written on the back of the short dictionary handed out at the door, "Bullfight is more than just a historical film; it is also a complete explanation of the meaning of bull-fighting." The complete explanation includes a sketchy history of the origins of bullfighting, a hasty description of the passes, together with brief shorts of most of this century's great matadors in action. These don't add much, except quantitatively, to the sum of the dining hall aficionado...
...great Andalusian Manolete, who was fatally gored in Linares, Spain in 1947 at the age of 30. The long-nosed, sad-eyed Manolete performs the weaving dance of death with the black bull in a manner as purely simple and beautiful as he himself was homely, gives the aspiring aficionado a hint of the poetry of blood that has fascinated writer-intellectuals from Théophile Gautier to Hemingway...