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COMMENTS: Death in the Afternoon
The virtue in Dawna Friesen's report from Barcelona on the mounting unpopularity of bullfighting in Catalonia--was the opportunity to show video of bullfighting. Friesen depicted the 72% opposition to the spectacle in the region as an animal rights protest against a "gruesome blood sport." Quoting Ernest Hemingway, Friesen assured us that the bullfight is not an equal contest between matador and beast: "There is danger for the man--but certain death for the bull." Unmentioned was the fact that Catalans and Spanish fail to see eye to eye on a gamut of issues. The closure of all but one of Barcelona's bullrings may reflect its separate culture more than solicitude for bulls.
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