For more than half a century, this conga-playing son of El Barrio fronted bands whose music was relentless, hip and happy.
The onslaught of luxury brands — Ralph Lauren, Jimmy Choo, Burberry, among them — has been so relentless that I'm happy when I see one of the old shops still in business.
I remain baffled that Tony Blair, with his relentless moral fervour, seems happy to sustain relationships with such people as Mandelson and Alastair Campbell who, pace Hutton, live and breathe in a moral vacuum, in which the only recognised imperative is political convenience.
The songs are powerful, the banter is relentless and the audience is happy.
So they needed to be given special consideration, first in the form of federal contracts in construction, then in the form of lower standards in university admissions.The Economist supported affirmative action for blacks then; it was less happy about its relentless extension to other groups, such as Latinos, Asians, Pacific Islanders and, with the least justification of all, to women.
Long nights, relentless moving and then those 5 01 happy hours and all the other happy hours in between.
Film-makers after a quick buck are well advised to hit the happy notes, as a relentless stream of mechanical romcoms proves.
For those not yet in that happy firmament, Pandora's relentless charge to reduce the royalties payable to the artist is positively frightening.
But there was a happy exception to the relentless flood of busy choreography presented by Dwight Rhoden, who founded the troupe with the dancer Desmond Richardson in 1994: "Memories," a premiere by the rising choreographer Camille A. Brown.
It is a propulsive blend of trap-happy percussion and the relentless thwack of maxed out bass stacks in the club.
