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...beer and whiskey, the grape farmers in Bill Barich's first novel, Carson Valley (Pantheon; 337 pages; $25), would not have to work as hard as they do. Slaking the thirst of the growing number of wine drinkers takes time and muscle. So where does Arthur Atwater, manager of Victor Torelli's vineyard, find the energy to have a grand cru romance with Anna, the boss's daughter? From the same source of instinctive vitality that drives every other plant and creature in California's wantonly fertile Sonoma County...
...DIED. VICTOR VASARELY, 88, a master of Op Art, a type of abstraction based on optical illusions and displayed in popular paintings that combines bright colors and geometrical forms; in Paris...
DIED. V.S. PRITCHETT, 96, writer, critic and all-around British man of letters; in London. Literally a child of this century, Sir Victor (he was knighted in 1975) turned out pithy, highly polished prose in a variety of genres, including travel writing, memoirs (A Cab at the Door, 1968), biographies, novels (Dead Man Leading, 1937) and numerous collections of literary criticism and short stories. He was a rare book reviewer who could also create memorable fiction. His stories, comic but sympathetic renderings of the antic aspirations of ordinary people, remained refreshingly old-fashioned and essentially timeless and enduring, given...
...Victor Jannett's Rigoletto was less satisfying and, as the central character of the opera, embodied the troubles of the production. His baritone was adequate, if not especially exciting, but it somehow lacked sheer force at crucial moments. Part of the problem lay in that his voice was drowned out every time the orchestra launched into the "curse" motif. And although he made a valiant effort to look appropriately anguished, his arm-waving and facial expression never quite succeeded in evoking the passions of the embittered hunchback...
Georgetown drew UNC-Charlotte in its first round game. The matchup features pure athleticism and the tournament's second-leading scorer, Victor Page, plus a lot of cool-sounding foreign names on the Georgetown roster. UNC-Charlotte, on the other hand, plays solid all-around defense and often lives or dies by its three-point shot. This should be one of the better 7-10 games...