Cliché corner   

"Dodgers righthander Hideo Nomo has not been the media darling he was as a rookie, but he remains effective and at times dominant." ( Hartford Courant )

"Nor has [New York Governor George Pataki] avoided personal embarrassments. His lieutenant governor, Betsy McCaughey Ross, has become a media darling by insulting him every chance she gets." ( Weekly Standard )

"You don't have to be a golfing fan to know who Tiger Woods is. He is the media darling of the hour, a young man of African-American and Thai descent who can really whack a golf ball." ( New Jersey's Bergen Record )

"The real reason [Lizzie Borden] was acquitted is that public sentiment was with her; she became something of a media darling." ( Washington Post )

"With every layer of pretense the Chicago Bulls forward applies to his life like so much makeup, he reinvents himself as a media darling. And whether the press gushes or gawks as if at a sideshow freak, [Dennis] Rodman gets attention." ( Chicago Tribune )