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Word: epigrammatist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what about those poor bald souls for whom Rogaine is not recommended? Ovid's fellow Roman, the epigrammatist Martial, may have had the best advice: "Be content to seem what you really are, and let the barber shave off the rest of your hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Gone Today, Hair Tomorrow | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

...sneaking brutal truths home in comic forms that range from the bon mot to the shaggy-dog story. The film is all very dislocating: the audience does not expect to see black comedy played out in bleached-white settings or to find the soul of an existential epigrammatist lurking under a rumpled bush jacket. It is also tough, smart and marvelously unpredictable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Alive and Well in Europe | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

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