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bull·fight
/ ˈboŏlˌfīt/
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a public spectacle, particularly in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America, at which a bull is baited in a highly stylized manner and then usually killed.
DERIVATIVES:
bull·fight·er
n.
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France's love affair with bullfighting goes sour over 'too gruesome' advert ; EUROPE
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/17/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...the once seemingly untouchable French bullfighting industry. Fierce public controversy...advertisement calling for a ban on bullfighting has been declared unacceptable - because...la corrida", the Spanish style of bullfighting to the death (of the bull). Bullfighting...
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Are the French and Spanish finally turning against bullfighting?
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/24/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...asking the question now? Opposition to bullfighting in France - weak and divided in the...political agenda this summer. An anti-bullfighting television advertisement, narrated...The 46-second ad showed standard, bullfighting scenes of animals being weakened with...
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Are the French and the Spanish finally turning against bullfighting?
Newspaper article from: Belfast Telegraph; 8/24/2007; 700+ words
; ...asking the question now? Opposition to bullfighting in France - weak and divided in the...political agenda this summer. An anti-bullfighting television advertisement, narrated...The 46- second ad showed standard, bullfighting scenes of animals being weakened with...
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Bullfighting fans in plea for world heritage status ; EUROPE
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/27/2007; ; 666 words
; ...Unesco World Heritage status for bullfighting. The Peruvian novelist and the...campaign to convince Unesco to class bullfighting as part of the country's national heritage. The pro-bullfighting Platform for the Defence of the...
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BULLFIGHTING MAJOR TOURIST ATTRACTION IN S KOREA.
News Wire article from: AsiaPulse News; 4/30/2004; 700+ words
; ...here, to see his bull compete in a bullfighting tournament. "I am thrilled. This...one of South Korea's traditional bullfighting events that have caught on in recent...village entertainment between farmers, bullfighting has become a major tourist attraction...
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It's not 'art or culture' - so Barcelona plans to ban bullfighting City council wants to create a new identity for itself and Catalonia by abolishing 'anachronistic' ancient sport
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 10/26/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...planning to deliver the coup de grace to bullfighting. Hemingway had a lifelong love affair with bullfighting and wrote evocatively of its "spiritual...official ban was proposed and said that bullfighting could disappear from the city "within...
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E.U. Considers Legislation to Cut Bullfighting Funding
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 6/10/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...U. Considers Legislation to Cut Bullfighting Funding Host: RENEE MONTAGNE Time...MONTAGNE, host: The tradition of bullfighting is the subject of fierce debate in...argue the European Union should fund bullfighting as a valuable part of European culture...
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Animal-rights activists trying to stop bullfighting in Mexico.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 11/2/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...for its 50th anniversary season of bullfighting, matadors are sharpening their swords...to end the centuries-old sport. Bullfighting, they say, is nothing more than the...the Mexican Matador Association. ``Bullfighting has profound roots in our cultural...
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Bullfighting faces uphill battle for audiences and relevance in Spain.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL); 9/14/2006; 700+ words
; ...tradition-bound world of Spanish bullfighting, which is the problem because a lot has changed in Spain. Bullfighting no longer commands the national...showered upon a Nadal or Ronaldinho. Bullfighting's audience is getting old. The...
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Barcelona considers ban on bullfighting Campaign has ancient sport's supporters pawing the ground
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 10/27/2003; ; 631 words
; ...planning to deliver the coup de grace to bullfighting. The author had a lifelong love affair with bullfighting and wrote evocatively of its "spiritual...official ban was proposed and that bullfighting could disappear from the city "within...
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bullfighting
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
bullfighting national sport and spectacle of Spain...first (c.1726) to fight on foot. Bullfighting is also popular in the Latin American...in the ring. Critics contend that bullfighting is an inhumane spectacle of animal...
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Bulls and Bullfighting
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
61. Bulls and Bullfighting See also 16. ANIMALS . aficionado an avid and informed devotee of bullflghting; now used of devotees of any sport, activity...
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Ramirez, Tina: 19(?)(?)—: Dancer, Choreographer, Educator
Book article from: Contemporary Hispanic Biography
...New York, NY 10024. She was also inspired by her father's performances in the bullfighting ring, which she recalled seeing from the age of two. "Bullfighting is like ballet," she told Scott Iwasaki of Salt Lake City's Deseret News...
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Juan Belmonte
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...speed and dexterity. He is said to have "invented" modern bullfighting with his daring, revolutionary style, which kept him almost...20) with the great Joselito , known as the Golden Age of Bullfighting, ended with Joselito's fatal goring. Bibliography: See...
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Botero, Fernando
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...1932) was one of the most popular modern artists. Studied Bullfighting Fernando Botero was born in Medellin, in the Colombian Andes...and the images in his first drawings come from the world of bullfighting (a watercolor of a matador is his first known work). Until...
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