NEWS ITEM HBO's "Bored to Death" is about a slacker private eye with "bored" alluding to palpable disinterest but the word is also a metaphor for intensity, as in drilling, which would be a different show if it were about dentistry. • • • Strike -- In bowling it's a hit and in baseball it's a miss; for labor, it's a job action of job inaction; for plants, it's about expanding, yet for theater, it's about reducing.
• • • Cleave -- to adhere [Old English cleofian; related to Old High German klebēn to stick], to split apart [Old English clēofan; related to Old Norse kljūfa, Old High German klioban, Latin glūbere to peel].
• • • Cop-- is to steal and a guy whose job it is to prevent stealing and an act of admitting and an act of denying, as in "After copping out, cop copped to the copping."
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