Word: stephen
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...academic star who by the age of 30 had produced an influential body of work on the treatment of the mentally retarded. But in the minds of some of his colleagues, there was something odd about the work of Stephen Breuning, an assistant professor of child psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. The results of his studies were almost too orderly, too pat, and the work was completed with remarkable speed. The doubts came to a head in 1983 when Breuning's supervisor, Robert Sprague, then director of the Institute for Child Behavior and Development at the University of Illinois...
This month, after a painstaking 2 1/2-year investigation, a five-member senior NIMH panel charged that Breuning "knowingly, willfully, and repeatedly engaged in misleading and deceptive practices in reporting results of research." Concluded the panel: "On the basis of all the facts, Dr. Stephen E. Breuning has engaged in serious scientific misconduct." Among other penalties, the NIMH recommended that Breuning be barred for ten years from receiving any contracts or funds from the Department of Health and Human Services. It also referred its findings to the Department of Justice for possible prosecution...
Then, as if cued by Stephen King, the wicked witch showed up in this fairy- tale resort on the Cote d'Azur. The creature arrived in the ursine form of Maurice Pialat, critically the most revered, personally the most reviled, of France's movie auteurs. A few days before, he had shown his new movie, Under the Sun of Satan, a stately adaptation of the Georges Bernanos novel about a self-torturing priest (Gerard Depardieu); its directorial style fell somewhere between rigor and rigor mortis. And now Yves Montand, president of this year's festival jury, was announcing the award...
Directed by Stephen Frears...
...bizarre circumstances of Orton's life hardly make for an empathetic telling, but in Prick Up Your Ears, screenwriter Alan Bennett and director Stephen Frears have fashioned a compelling, naturalistic and extremely entertaining picture. What could have easily been a sexo-literary freak show instead ripples with wit and energy...