Word: bienvenida
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...bull veered. The 21,000 aficionados packed into Madrid's Plaza Monumental let out a mighty gasp as its right horn slashed into the chest of Antonio Bienvenida, 38, dean of Spain's matadors. Twice, with a savage spasm of his lacerated but still powerful neck muscles, the bull tossed Bienvenida into the air. It was mauling Bienvenida, helpless on the sand, when the peones dashed up to cape the bull away. Instantly, Bienvenida's father and brother called on a husky, hawknosed six-footer, still dark-haired despite his 67 years: Dr. Luis...
...little white-walled infirmary under the stands last week, Don Luis carefully snipped off Bienvenida's tight white-and-gold costume, ordered him wheeled into the operating room. There, with two assisting surgeons, he assessed the damage: four broken ribs, possibly a broken fibula (calf bone), a ten-inch gash from the right ear, which was ripped open, through the area of the parotid gland and carotid artery almost to the armpit. The outlook: muy grave-critical...
With the bleeding Bienvenida, Surgeon Giménez Guinea wasted no time on such trivia as ribs, tackled immediately the ear-to-armpit wound that had exposed nerves and arteries in the neck. He had no time to prepare the patient for surgery; that is a luxury Giménez Guinea rarely enjoys. He told an assistant to inject antibiotics. Then he went to work with especially sharp, small scalpels with interchangeable blades of razor steel. Don Luis trimmed away dead tissue, sewed the edges of healthy tissue together, dusting the wound with germ-killing sulfa drugs. The most urgent...
...Bienvenida described the fix, the handlers cut away a few inches of horn, then disguise their work by filing and painting the mutilated tips and by shaving away hair at the base to make the horn look longer. This operation, said Bienvenida, explains much of the daring of big-name Spanish matadors in recent years...
Just look what happens to our big stars when they go to South America." Before the week was out, Matador Bienvenida could point to two examples of just how tough Latin American bullfighting can be. One example was provided by one of Mexico's top matadors, Jorge Aguilar, who was carried to the hospital with a deep horn wound in his right...