Word: swenson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hires black Butler Benson (Robert Guillaume) to run his household and, by inference, his unidentified Eastern state. Except for Benson and the Governor's unspeakably precocious subteen daughter (Missy Gold), the series is entirely inhabited by knaves and fools; Harris even drags in a barking Germanic housekeeper (Inga Swenson) who would be more appropriate to Hogan 's Heroes. The restrained Guillaume is a refreshing antidote to the caricatured blacks one normally finds in TV comedy, but this series needs political bite and sharper writing to prevent its captive audience from nodding...
...SELECTED THINGS TAKING PLACE by May Swenson Atlantic-Little, Brown 301 pages...
...become, in the past 25 years, one of the most accessible of all living .U.S. poets. Her works have appeared nearly everywhere, from the quarterlies and The New Yorker to the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune Magazine. Such popularity does not come free. At her least strenuous, Swenson picks up quotidian chatter and reproduces...
...even commits that most worn-out philistine pastime, making fun of abstract art. The happy news is that such limp work forms a minority in the book. Swenson is at her best in natural, isolated settings. Her eye for detail is both loving and fierce. She runs alone on a beach...
This aching sense of impermanence, of pleasure heightened by its imminent disappearance, is a constant refrain in Swenson's best poems. September is her season...