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...coffee, which is constantly brewing, and straight-out-of-the-oven breads. Sourdough rounds, baguettes, Vienna loaves, lemon scones and focaccia are among Panini's standards. Specials include such delicacies as potato loaves, onion focaccia and crushed olive rolls, all obviously fresh and exceptionally well priced. A variety of pound cakes, cookies and giant biscotti lay on the counter; a friendly, exuberant staff sits behind it. Besides staple deli drinks such as IBC root beer and cream soda, they offer "Fresh Samantha" carrot juice, fresh squeezed orange juice and fruit smoothies, produced and delivered by a local businessman...
Although freshman James Butera started the match with an encouraging victory at the 118-pound spot, there was little else for the Crimson to cheer about...
Further inspiration was provided by senior tri-captain Kris Reina, a 150-pound wrestler who volunteered to face the best UMass wrestler, a Division 3 All-American, at the 167-pound spot. Despite the considerable size disadvantage, Reina was winning until, finally worn down, he was rolled and pinned late in the match...
...lone bright spot was once again provided by Gerstung, who wrestled admirably in a 10-6 loss to Earl Walker, the nation's top-ranked wrestler at the 158-pound spot...
Schedrin's lazy, impotent score is loutish when it is not downright sullen. The finale-in which the degenerate playwright Quilty scrambles around his mansion in a drugged stupor, stopping to pound out a few chords on his piano before Humbert Humbert (Per-Arne Wahlgren) shoots him-is a scene worthy of Shostakovich in his manic, trumpets-and-snare-drums mode, but all Schedrin can muster is forced-march noodlings. As for the vulgar libretto, Schedrin wrote it himself but neglected to secure rights from the Nabokov estate. The copyright problems were eventually sorted out with the stipulation that...