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...cheering as the world's finest athletes hurl themselves downhill in pursuit of a piece of cheese or watching slo-mo replays of bloodied shin kickers or muddied bog snorkelers going for the gold. For, as J.R. Daeschner relates in his obsessive, down-and-dirty travelogue, True Brits (Arrow Books; 340 pages), they're the kind of thing that passed for "physical culture" among the Anglo-Saxons of yore. And what's more, such ancient sports and kindred traditions are very much alive and, er, kicking in 21st century Britain. The Cotswold "Olimpicks" - events included cudgel fights and bearbaiting - survived...
...modest Houstonian with the hinted Texas drawl and the no-bones, straight-arrow demeanor leans forward in his seat. Can he succeed in professional baseball...
...Great Depression and under nine U.S. presidents. We abhor this attitude. Too much of Cambridge’s history is being lost for the embrace of this blasé worship of capitalism—red in tooth and claw—to be permissible. In 2000, the historic Bow & Arrow Pub served its last pint, culminating a decade of the Square’s cultural decline. In 1992 customers literally wept at the closing of J.F. Olsson’s—a fixture on Brattle Street for 107 years. Financial troubles led the once popular Wursthaus restaurant to disappear...
...only part that really sticks out is the a capella breakdown in “We Fenced Other Gardens With the Bones of Our Own,” which is the best song on the album until it gets turned into a go-nowhere instrumental, at which point the arrow that drove the first two thirds forward gets lost in a stuffy kind of sandbox and everything becomes horrible...
...those looking to browse antiques and art while they wait for their hair color to process, Duncan Purdy’s About Hair, located at 1 Arrow St., has the solution. Purdy, who exudes the aesthetic of a modern renaissance man, had been managing About Hair for an outside company when it decided to pull out of Cambridge in 1988. He purchased it, and over the past 15 years has taken it to horizons above and beyond hair...