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Twenty-one years later, on Good Friday, 1954, Manuel was crucified on a hill outside Tlaltenalco. He had been scourged; real thorns bloodied his head; those about the cross wore armor-not of Roman soldiers but such as Cortes' men had worn when he brought the cross and sword to Mexico 435 years before. It was the annual Passion play* of Tlaltenalco, and there were tourists, who did not fail to note that Manuel's beard was paper. It came unstuck and fell off somewhere along his Via Dolorosa...
...wagon train killed his traveling companion and stole the sacred urn, sure that the ashes were really Oriental jewels. After chasing the culprits into the middle of a mess of Comanches, Ito waited while the Indians armed them with tomahawks, then dispatched the whole crew with his terrible sword. "Eeee-to," clucked Bond in not-too-angry disapproval, after he rode up too late to stop the sudden justice. But Ito was inconsolable. His master's ashes had been spilled, so he drew a ceremonial knife across his belly in harakiri. ("So big country. My master ronery now. Rost...
...flats. The boss of the approaching wagon train is understandably puzzled. He rides up to investigate. Just as he is about to tug at the wagon's flap, he hears a strange whirring. He pulls back just in time to escape the downward thrust of a thin-bladed sword. A samisen twangs weirdly on the sound track and a mustachioed Japanese samurai, complete with formal helmet and robe, emerges into the prairie glare...
...engagement, so another "lucky day" will have to be chosen for the marriage. In the meantime, the Emperor and Empress will exchange gifts with the Shodas-a sea bream, the fish of good fortune, as well as sake and silk. Akihito will present his future wife with a jeweled sword to protect her chastity, and the Emperor will bestow on her the Grand Cordon of the Imperial Order of the Sacred Crown, the highest decoration given a woman in Japan. Finally, the young couple will exchange love poems, written on pink paper and enclosed in boxes made of willow...
...minutes of drivel movie to see fifteen of Manolete. The Death of Manolete is another Spanish Horatio Alger story. The only road to fame and wealth open to a poor Spanish boy as everyone knows by now is the bullring. The whole story, from dodging calves with a wooden sword to the inevitable fatal goring is told through old photographs of varying tones and textures, accompanied by a vaguely familiar soundtrack of bullfight music and roaring crowds...