Profiles of him seldom fail to mention the fact he doesn't drink, smoke or take drugs, as though this was somehow the most unusual thing in the world.
Tobacco Factory, Thu to 10 Jan LG It is only two years since the Sheffield Theatres revived Lionel Bart's musical, a surefire crowdpleaser that was an immediate hit on its 1960 London premiere, and it seldom fails to raise the roof with its chirpy songs, cheeky urchins and picaresque poor people.
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PETERSBURG -- Love it or detest it, the Eifman troupe and Boris Eifman, its choreographic raison d'être, seldom fail to get the juices flowing.
Musical instruments seldom fail to intrigue children, but it was fun to see one young girl gleefully waving her arms in time with Mr. Manahan's gestures.
The results aren't always convincing (is Superman's cape really a Jewish prayer shawl?), but they seldom fail to be provocative and entertaining.
As readers of Dickens seldom fail to notice, his fiction is drenched in histrionics, fueled by melodrama, chockablock with eccentrics who cry out for the limelight.
Mérot's translator, Frank Wynne, is uncannily good at relaying the uncle's epigrams and character profiles, which seldom fail to entertain.
Impeachment, as Alexander Hamilton wrote at the time of the founding, can "seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community"; it is bound to "enlist all their animosities, partialities, influence and interest".
Most prominent were the two men whose names seldom fail to pop up when North Korea watchers try to dissect the palace intrigues in the capital, Pyongyang: Jang Song-taek, Kim Jong-un's uncle and vice chairman of the powerful National Defense Commission, and Vice Marshal Ri Yong-ho, who leads the North Korean military's general staff.
