Cliché Corner
By
Lori Robertson
Lori Robertson (robertson.lori@gmail.com), a former AJR managing editor, is a senior contributing writer for the magazine.
"The owl-centric studies are part of a nine-week curriculum focusing on animals."
Arizona Republic
"[I]t is important for [Houston] to understand the changing dynamics of the increasingly technology-centric economy, city leaders said Tuesday."
Houston Chronicle
"People whose schedules are Indiana-centric, like children going to school or employees at local bank branches, keep their clocks the same, on 'slow time.' "
New York Times
"I don't want to be media-centric, but part of the gloominess these days may have to do with what's going on in the media business."
Washington Post
"And so the Rads continue to cook up their special brand of 'fishhead music,' a decidedly Big Easy, groove-centric medley of roots rock, funk and rhythm & blues."
New Orleans' Times-Picayune
"Come Monday, [Mike] Barnicle will take over the 6 p.m. weekday hour on the cable news outlet with the Dubya-centric talk show 'The First 100 Days.' "
Boston Herald
"The popularity of portable audio players that play compressed (MP3) music on a chip, the rapid acceptance of filmless digital cameras that provide instant image gratification, the phenomenon of Sony's PlayStation2--all point toward a PC/CE-centric field of very attainable dreams."
Newsday
"As he continues to shoot according to his instinct, [Kobe] Bryant is not defying O'Neal but the Shaq-centric system that is the Lakers' focus."
The Sporting News
from about 320 references in December and January ###
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