director, producer, screenwriter, critic, actor Born: 7/30/1939Birthplace: Kingston, New York A former film critic, he commenced his filmmaking career with Targets (1968), which he wrote, produced…
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(Encyclopedia) epigram, a short, polished, pithy saying, usually in verse, often with a satiric or paradoxical twist at the end. The term was originally applied by the Greeks to the inscriptions on…
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