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Liked The Passions - The Square.
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"Oh Detlef, Excel will only take you down." [rutlo]
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Liked Midge Ure - No Regrets.
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Liked The Passions - Sanctuary.
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Board games as stylistic barometers
By Matthew Rutledge on 11/01/2009
Board games used to be a major pastime of mine. Being an only child, and possessing a lexicon not particularly bespoke for a little tyke, I often had to play with my mother or Mervyn, the bunny rabbit (which usually means that I won, of course). But now that I look back on them, I realize that they were, for a while at least, part of the stylistic and cultural vanguard, little designs for an engineered contemporary middle class.
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