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When hes done campaigning, Mitt Romney promises in the disarming and revealing documentary, MITT, People will know me and know what I stand for the flipping Mormon.

Directed sympathetically by Greg Whiteley, who had access to the former Massachusetts governor and his family during both his failed 2008 quest for the Republican presidential nomination and his failed 2012 presidential campaign, the documentary takes us in the room on election night with Romney and his immaculately-scrubbed, Osmond-like familyas they learn President Obama is being re-elected. Romney takes the news with equanimity but there is poignance in his features. Does anyone have a number for the president? he asks.

A good documentary uses judicious editing to make an important addition to your knowledge of a subject, and Mitt does so in a big way. We now know that Romney and even his wife Ann were plagued by doubts. Given that public servants, as they annoyingly call themselves, can be almost unbearably arrogant about their powers and the peoples love for them, Romney comes across as an un-politician. Reductionist sportscasters tell us that A won and B lost because A wanted it more. Romney, it now seems, wasnt the guy who wanted it more.

Director Greg Whiteley (L) and Mitt Romney attend the premiere of Mitt at the Sundance Film Festival.Photo: Getty Images

Before his triumphant first debate with President Obama, Mrs. Romney is seen joking that dirge music should be played because Mitt was walking to his execution. Romney himself allows that he is intimidated by the president and even after his success in that showdown, which marked the high point of the campaign, he pooh-poohs his performance, saying that incumbent presidents always lose the first one. At one point he spoofs his own campaign fundraising speeches: Let me tell ya, Im gonna win this! Oh my gosh, I cant fake it.

Der Mittster comes across as funny and amiable, a sweet dork rather than the T-Rex of venture capital. He tries to iron his jacket cuffs without removing the coat, sleeps on the floor of an airplane and criticizes his own appearance. Try not to break my hair, he says his famously oaken coifwhile primping for a debate.

Mitt is a personal profile, not a campaign-strategy film, and there isnt much here for political analysts to factor into their horse-race analysis. But the stiff who was born wearing a necktie and a starched shirt is transformed and redefined in just 90 minutes. Now we know that Romney is decent, relatable, honest and open, a good man deserving of lasting respect.

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Washington was blanketed in snow when the Takacs Quartet came to town, the roads around the Kennedy Center deserted. The quartets two scheduled performances in the Fortas Chamber Music series were among the highlights of the concert season: a traversal of all six of Bela Bartoks string quartets, music the Takacs, founded in Budapest in 1975 and now with a British first violin and an American violist has made utterly its own. But for many concertgoers, the roads were impassible. On Tuesday night, the ensemble played three of the quartets the first, third and fifth to a half-empty Terrace Theater.

Bartoks quartets are often perceived as being difficult to access, even under clearer weather conditions although I confess I have always found them immediately simpatico, a brilliant fusion of the classical music tradition with the wider frame of reference and expressive possibilities of the 20th century. They are not exactly intimate pieces: big, ambitious, searing, filled with ideas and emotions, with folk dances and complex rhythms, burrs and drones and plucks and plinks and burbles and rumbles, to be the stuff of small gatherings. But it certainly felt like the height of luxury to be part of the exclusive group that got to hear them on Tuesday: the flowery post-Romantic heaviness of the first, the slashing chords of the third, the almost film-score opening of the fifth. As often happens during concerts under unusual circumstances, there was a kind of solidarity between players and audience from the outset: an even greater immediacy, even warmer applause. The second night, the cycles conclusion, was no less musically accomplished, but as a return to business as usual, with all the seats filled, felt slightly anticlimactic.

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It had nothing to do with the playing. The Takacs are wonderful travel companions through the diverse terrain of this music. They approach it with the expertise of long acquaintance, but none of the rhetorical affect of people trying to show you something. There is nothing didactic in their presentation. They do not indulge in virtuosity, nor underline emotional high points; no member stands out as playing with more beauty or finesse or skill than any other although if I had to give a beauty prize it would go to the warm sound of Geraldine Walther, the groups violist and newest member, who joined in 2005. (Only two of the original members, the second violinist Karoly Schranz and Andras Fejer, with a light crisp chewy cello sound, remain; but the first violinist, Edward Dusinberre, has been a member of the quartet for 21 years.)

They play with a taut, compelling immediacy, a lightness and flexibility of tone, making a sound that is not lush or goopy, but suffused with color. They can keep hold of the intellectual intricacies of this music, in which Bartok brings together many disparate elements and a whole catalogue of sound effects, into a single tight braid, stepping in just as things start to get diffuse in the fourth quartet, for instance, at a moment when each instrument seemed to be departing on its own trajectory to reestablish the structure that keeps the music together. But they also can present the straightforward, aching feeling in the sixth quartet, written in 1939, as the composer was struggling to work in the gathering clouds of war and just before he left Hungary forever, without pathos, but with an intensity that is even more moving in its unaffected simplicity.

We are fond today of cycles. Orchestras devote a season or two or three to the symphonies of a given composer, recording as they go; pianists present the complete Chopin preludes or ballades, works that a generation ago were almost never heard in performance as a set, and the Beethoven piano-sonata cycle has become such a thing that the pianist Stewart Goodyear has taken to playing all 32 of them in a single-day marathon.

A cycle offers concertgoers a sense of value added: hearing a lot of a composers music at one go is like a crash course for lodging his idiom, his sound in ones ear, and emphasizes his greatness by presenting him in the trappings of monumentality. It involves, for all, a sense of something large undertaken, and accomplished, together. It is akin to sitting down and reading all the novels of Jane Austen or Philip Roth or any other writer at a single go: Its ideal for some, while others might prefer to roam and savor a little more slowly, and with a little more variety.

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Posted: Thursday, January 23, 2014 11:00 am

Finish line in sight for Bolton Lakes Big Dig

The Bolton Lake sewer project is not exactly akin to Bostons Big Dig, but for those who live around the lake and who are connected into the new sanitary sewer line it is their Big Dig and it is almost over.

The Bolton Lake project was initiated in 1999 when the state Department of Environmental Protection ordered a sewer system be installed around the lake, as many septic tanks were failing.

The project is now on its last round, with bids being asked for its final section.

Bolton Lake will remain clean, residents will have solved their septic tank problems by connecting into the Manchester sewer system, and the state grants and loans from the federal government will have brought its cost in under budget.

Congratulations to everyone.

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Concerning Granger water: We have experienced water problems ever since we moved to Granger more than 10 years ago. We have no well or septic system. We have city water, established through the former Clay Utilities and city sewer. The water heaters in our neighborhood are constantly being replaced. We have had five in the 10 years we have lived here. We were told that it was electrolysis so we installed a ring. We have a perforated copper pipe as proof. Recently, when the furnace man hooked up our humidifier, there was reddish gunk in the line. He said that it was bacterial iron. We have neighbors who refuse to drink the water. Sometimes our water smells and tastes terrible -- sometimes like chlorine. Should we drink it? We would welcome any answers.

Dave and Alice Miller

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No, you will not be able to get an oil change at Spike Gjerde's Parts and Labor.

You will however, be able to order a variety of meats at the Remington butcher shop and restaurant being planned by Gjerde, the restaurateur who also owns Woodberry Kitchen and Artifact Coffee, as well as Shoo-Fly in the Belvedere Square shopping center.

In this case, the word parts refers to animal parts, Gjerde said as he presented plans for Parts and Labor to the Greater Remington Improvement Association on Monday, Jan. 20.

Gjerde, appearing with his restaurant group's general manager, Corey Polyoka in a conference room at the Miller's Court apartment complex, promised an audience of about two dozen people an old-fashioned butcher shop with tile floors and walls, "along with a really cool small restaurant ... in one of the coolest neighborhoods there ever was."

Gjerde said he hopes to open Parts and Labor in the next two months in the former Mr. James Tire Shop at 26th and Howard streets, across the street from Miller's Court. The building has been redeveloped by its new owner, Seawall Development Corp., and Parts and Labor will be the third tenant to move in, behind Single Carrot Theatre and the nonprofit Young Audiences Arts for Learning, both of which have already moved in.

"We are slightly more than a month away from wrapping up construction," said Gjerde, who still needs city approval for a liquor license. He and Polyoka said they would try to buy local and regional beers and wines, and will offer 24 "taps."

He also said he plans to apply for a Class B liquor license in February, to serve beer, wine and liquor.

Woodberry Kitchen, which Gjerde co-owns with his wife, Amy, is known for using local and regional farmers and growers who practice sustainability for its meats and produce whenever possible, and hopes to "increase out ability to do that," with the new butcher shop, Gjerde said. He said his continuing mission is "feeding people in a way that respects the planet."

He said he plans to do his own curing and smoking of meats, and will cook in the restaurant in a large open hearth, using cast-iron skillets and pans, rather than having a traditional commercial kitchen. The restaurant will specialize in "lots of shareable plates," as well as lunch sandwiches.

"We wanted to do something really basic," Gjerde said. He said he opened Woodberry Kitchen in 2007 with "once central idea," local food and produce, a concept that "has taken on a life of its own," he said.

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