Word: corrida
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...last two numbers of the regular winning National Lottery ticket. In the bullfight fans' cafés such as the Tupinamba, big money is bet on which matador will get the privilege of cutting off a bull's ear in the Sunday corrida...
...their lives as seed bulls). Los diablos negros (the black devils) of La Punta have charged the capes of Belmonte, Manolete, and most of the other great and near-great of recent bullring history. Businesswise, La Punta's long gamble is rewarded by orders for about 35 corridas (six bulls, with two held in reserve) a season. It charges as much as 40,000 pesos ($4,624) a corrida, a price that few other ranches could...
Bull fighting is a strange sport to most Americans, but to some aficionados it is a supreme art. Other art forms are merely reflections of life; the corrida de torros (festival of bulls) is the realistic struggle of life and death with unfeigned violence and power. Man and mind fight the brute strength of the bull with skill and artistry...
...festival. He wanted to explain how the bulls affect the lives of the people who work with them, how the spirit of the fight captures the toreador, how he rassles with fear, and how fear sometimes wins. This picture of a peoples' spirit behind the great pageant of the corrida required a novel. Tom Lea called his novel "The Brave Bulls...
...story centers on the life, love, and fear of Luis Bello, matador de torros. He is one of the top bull fighters of Mexico, the one the small arena at Cuenca wants for its grand festival. But before this corrida occurs, Luis goes into a slump. An older matador is killed by a bull, Luis' girl and his best friend are killed together in an automobile crash, and Luis Bello can no longer stand up to the bulls. For the first time in his career, he is afraid of the horns. Forced into the Cuenca corrida, Luis conquers his fear...