Word: oedipian
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...movie is a series of one-liners and short skits involving the Oedipian Walter Dinsmore. The straightmen are the black comedy figures of the New York Scene: the bald psychiatrist (who speaks like Groucho Marx), the underground movie maker ("in underground movies the action is all behind the camera"), and the Jewish caterer. The show recalls the most thunderous moments of burlesque, irreverence armed and swaggering...
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