Word: geller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When the three young men returned to their Brooklyn apartment after a night of drinking in 1973, an argument ensued over when Joseph Bush would pay his share of the rent. Bush pulled a .38-cal. revolver and shot Michael Lawrence Geller three times in the chest. Bush then allegedly threatened Melvin Dlugash, who Bush feared would be a witness unless he, too, were involved in the crime. So Dlugash fired five shots into Geller's head from his own .25-cal. pistol. Bush drew five to ten years after pleading guilty to manslaughter, but Dlugash went to trial...
...after a couple of airings; long-term commitments to series became vulnerable. Producers depend on eventual syndication sales, and such deals are profitable only with a minimum of 100 shows. Says Bruce Geller, producer of Mannix, "It's all very confusing at the moment. No one really knows what will or will not work. Maybe television will be a little more experimental-trying to serialize novels, produce adult soap-opera concepts in prime time-than has been the case in recent years." The question remains whether that, in turn, will lead to better programs...
...Strange Appeal. Social psychologists have long been aware that disasters can exert a strange appeal. The sharing of a common threat pulls people together and creates a sense of purpose and adventure. "If you're in a rut, locked into your career," says Marvin Geller, director of Princeton's counseling services, "you may hope for some cataclysmic event to shake you out of it." Nostalgia for the '30s, fed by TV shows like The Waltons, can make the harsh realities of depression seem attractive...
Submitted by Physicists Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff, the Nature article emphasized experiments at the Stanford Research Institute involving the controversial Israeli psychic and nightclub magician Uri Geller (TIME, March 14, 1973). Among other things, the report claimed that Geller correctly called the roll of a die inside a steel box eight out of ten times; on the other two rolls he declined to pick a number. The odds against his performing that feat by chance, Targ and Puthoff calculated, were about a million to one. Geller was also reported to have sketched remarkably accurate versions of drawings picked...
...editorial that accompanied the Stanford Research Institute report. In the editorial, Nature's editors not only criticized the SRI paper but also pointedly called attention to the same week's issue of another respected British magazine, New Scientist, which carried a lengthy exposé that undermined both Geller and the SRI report...