Published January 31, 2021, 12:31 AM
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Then they came to Capernaum, and on the Sabbath Jesus entered the synagogue and taught. The people were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes. In their synagogue was a man with an unclean spirit; he cried out, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are the Holy One of God!” Jesus rebuked him and said, “Quiet! Come out of him!” The unclean spirit convulsed him and with a loud cry came out of him. All were amazed and asked one another, “What is this? A new teaching with authority. He commands even the unclean spirits and they obey him.” His fame spread everywhere throughout the whole region of Galilee.
Hard as it might be to believe, the years that stretched from roughly 1967 through the bicentennial year of 1976 brought even more foment, outrage, unrest, and upheaval to America than the most recent decade has managed. The escalation of the Vietnam War, the student protests against that war, the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., psychedelia and the sexual revolution, Woodstock, the political resurrection of Richard Nixon, the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, the moon landings, the Manson murders, second-wave feminism, the Pentagon Papers, the shootings at Kent State, Watergate, the fall of Nixon, the rise of the summer blockbuster film it was an era of almost unprecedented social and cultural turmoil.
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If you tried to ring in the New Year by watching the single most cringeworthy episode of television ever filmed, you might have been crushed to learn that “The Office” isn’t on Netflix anymore.
As to why, well, we weren’t immediately sure. Was it the lizard people who control the economy? Was it Antifa? Is Netflix trying to dwindle its library, limiting the options until people are finally forced to watch “Fuller House”? Nope: The answer is that Michael Scott, Jim, Pam, and the rest of Dunder Mifflin have just gone home to NBC’s streaming service Peacock, which has a pricing system unlike any other streaming service on the market.
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If you tried to ring in the New Year by watching the single most cringeworthy episode of television ever filmed, you might have been crushed to learn that “The Office” isn’t on Netflix anymore.
As to why, well, we weren’t immediately sure. Was it the lizard people who control the economy? Was it Antifa? Is Netflix trying to dwindle its library, limiting the options until people are finally forced to watch “Fuller House”? Nope: The answer is that Michael Scott, Jim, Pam, and the rest of Dunder Mifflin have just gone home to NBC’s streaming service Peacock, which has a pricing system unlike any other streaming service on the market.
Gallery: Recalling lives lost in 2020
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English actress Honor Blackman poses for photographers during a break from the filming in London. Blackman, 94, the potent British actress who took James Bond’s breath away as Pussy Galore in “Goldfinger” and who starred as the leather-clad, judo-flipping Cathy Gale in “The Avengers,” died April 5. (AP Photo/Leonard Brown, File) Show MoreShow Less
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak delivers a speech at the first day of the 5th annual convention of the ruling National Democratic Party in Cairo, Egypt. Mubarak, 91, the Egyptian leader who was the autocratic face of stability in the Middle East for nearly 30 years before being forced from power in an Arab Spring uprising, died Feb. 25. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File) Show MoreShow Less