Cliché corner

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

Madonna has been selling, celebrating and satirizing sex throughout her career, constantly pushing the envelope... (Washington Post)

Lucky's lawyer argues that Ms. Larkin is pushing the envelope of Title 7... (New York Times)

Most radio insiders agree that Stern has succeeded in pushing the envelope to such an extent... (Los Angeles Times)

If "pushing the envelope" is your cup of tea, you may not gravitate to these handsome paintings. (Atlanta
Journal and Constitution)

IBM is pushing the envelope with a pair of updates due in staged releases... (PC Week)

Suddenly Mr. Coupland became an instant expert, a cutting-edge, pushing-the-envelope kind of guy. (Atlanta Journal and Constitution)

Garth Brooks appears to be pushing the envelope in country music... (Chicago Tribune)

From eight weeks last fall. Nearly a third of the more than 400 examples found in a database search had appeared in the previous 10 months.

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