Word: jeevesian
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...shows, the annoying tendency of audiences to become tired of the actor. By switching characters like the Queen switches hats, he keeps each fresh and chirpy. Duke has simply enormous energy as he cavorts about the stage. His timing lags a bit when he assumes a Jeevesian demeanor, but his Wooster is quite rummy, a perfectly charming chump, and his portrayal of Gussie Fink-Nottle, the newt-lover, is rather amphibious...
Despite the President's early observation that he intended to make his own breakfast, this service is now usually provided by a Jeevesian attendant, who brings him his orange juice, sliced melon, tea and English muffins piping hot, margarined and ready to be marmaladed. (Last week's presidential muffin-toasting performance was a special show put on in response to numerous requests by photographers.) A man of enormous energy and appetite, Ford nevertheless sticks strictly to Dr. Lukash's regimen, even manfully downing the Nixonian lunch of cottage cheese (Chef Haller says that the President has never...
...turns up by some mistake as a resident baby-sitter, and in the end he is more or less running the happily married couple and their three little boys. Having harvested something of a general education, Webb is on hand to avert every family disaster in the accepted Jeevesian fashion. Only once does his wisdom and teaching fail: that is when one of the little boys gets a bellyache, and this heartrending dialogue ensues: "Well, why don't you stand on your head like Mr. Belvedere said?" "I did, but I only threw...
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