AJR  Cliché Corner
From AJR,   September 1993

Cliché corner   

By Chip Rowe
Chip Rowe, a former AJR associate editor, is an editor at Playboy.     



Manny Steward, in Jones' corner, in an effort to give his fighter a wake-up call , told him... (San Francisco Chronicle)

Or maybe the wake-up call was finding out how irate players union chief Don Fehr was... (USA Today)

Together, fruits and herbs send the palate a subtle wake-up call ... (Los Angeles Times)

And Alou stuck with Rojas even after getting a wake-up call with one out in the ninth... (Montreal Gazette)

The killing has been a wake-up call to many in the neighborhoods surrounding the park. (New York Times)

A lack of donations has resulted in a rude wake-up call for the local chapter of I Have a Dream... (Houston Chronicle)

Cops send suburbs a wake-up call (Chicago Tribune)

[The deal] sent a jarring wake-up call to the telecommunications industry. (Fortune)

From five days earlier this year.

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