Etiqueta: Bullrings
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Bullfighting, Sport and Industry by Ernest Hemingway – Fortune 1930.
Editor’s note: “Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters,” Ernest Hemingway wrote in his 1926 classic The Sun Also Rises. This week, Fortune turns to a feature Hemingwaypenned for the magazine’s March 1930 issue on the harsh, unforgiving, and, for a select few, immensely lucrative business of bullfighting. Marcial Lalanda made over $150,000 last year. But the…
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For Spain’s Bullfights, Coronavirus Threatens Fatal Blow.
Pandemic forces cancellation of events already condemned by animal-rights groups. By Giovanni Legorano. Veteran matador Diego Urdiales had this year’s bullfighting season all planned out. He was due to perform in Spain’s most important festivals, from Seville’s April Fair to Madrid’s San Isidro. Then the coronavirus pandemic hit and bullfights were canceled, along with other public events.…
