Cliché corner   

"Everyone remembers the meteoric rise and fall of M.C. Hammer and Vanilla Ice."

( Albany Times Union )

"Sunday River based its meteoric rise firmly on the technology of snowguns and grooming machines."

( Worcester, Massachusetts, Sunday Telegram )

"Lipinski's performance caps an unprecedented meteoric rise in the rough and many-tumbled world of figure skating."

(" All Things Considered" )

"The same year, the painter Julian Schnabel made his directorial debut with 'Basquiat,' the story of the meteoric rise of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat."

( Newsday )

"After decades of dull obscurity, the city formerly known as Nap Town is enjoying a meteoric rise."

( St. Louis Post-Dispatch )

from 138 references during February