Word: shysters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Aykroyd--the smooth-talking conniver who can BS his way out of anything." Those of us who tend to think of Aykroyd more in terms of an unfunny fat man may have trouble discerning Ritchie's meaning. At any rate, the portrayal of a mental patient as a shyster who fakes mental illness to avoid responsibility is highly offensive to anyone who has had contact with the disease...
...depressing gallery of old people, among them his coldly uncaring father. The city is too hot, the elevator doors are too slow, his money is running out, and the wife whom he left but who will not give him a divorce is pestering him for support payments. Worse, a shyster doctor has talked him into squandering his piddling savings on the commodities market. "What's the matter?" asks his father, to whom he turns as a last resort. "Everything," Tommy replies. "Just everything...