Summary: The film tells the story of a 1980 accident at a Titan II missile complex in Damascus, Arkansas, in minute-by-minute detail through the accounts of Air Force personnel, weapon designers, and first responders who were there, revealing the incredible chain of events that brought America to the brink of nuclear disaster.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF COMKing Missile III
Contents: Failure -- The boy made out of bone china -- A good hard look -- Up my ass -- The little sandwich that got a guilt complex because he was the sole survivor of a horrible bus crash -- Despair -- Monks -- Gay/not gay -- Happiness -- Mr. Pomerantz -- Juniper dog -- Tour diary: Louisville -- The adventures of Planky -- I dare to hope.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Knitting Factory Records/Shimmy Disc 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK KingKing Missile (Musical group)
Contents: Title track -- Rock-n-roll will never die -- No point -- Gary & Melissa -- Frightened & freezing -- How to remember your dreams -- The fish that played the ponies -- Jesus was way cool -- Open -- The sandbox -- The neither world -- She didn't want -- Cheesecake truck -- Equivalencies -- Love you more -- Fourthly -- Lou -- At Dave's -- Muffy -- Take stuff from work -- Sensitive artist -- Wuss --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Instinct Records 2004
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK KINKing Missile (Musical group)
Contents: Sink (3:00) -- Martin Scorsese (1:57) -- (Why are we) trapped? (4:30) -- It's Saturday (2:33) -- VvV (Vulva void) (3:24) -- Metanoia (3:20) -- Detachable penis (3:22) -- Take me home (6:00) -- Ed (6:17) -- Anywhere (3:33) -- The evil children (5:47) -- Glass (:23) -- And (2:49) -- King Murdock (:54) -- I'm sorry (3:03) -- Heaven (2:47) -- Happy hour (5:39).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK KINKing Missile (Musical group)
Contents: The way to salvation -- Life -- The boy who ate lasagna and could jump over a church -- The story of Willy -- Dinosaurs -- I wish -- The Indians -- It's -- My heart is a flower -- Pickaxe -- Sex with you -- Part two -- Betrayal takes two -- Listen to me -- Come closer -- Scotland -- To walk among the pigs.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK KINSummary: A historical action war drama based on the founding of the Republic of China, when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the last ruling Qing Dynasty, which held unquestioned power and rule for 250 years. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, no expense was spared in the production and no detail ignored in its quest for historical accuracy. 1911 is a true...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NINSummary: Liu Jin-xi is a village craftsman whose quiet life is irrevocably shattered by the arrival of two notorious gangsters in the local general store. When Liu single-handedly saves the shopkeeper's life, he comes under investigation by detective Xu Bai-jiu. Convinced that Liu's martial arts mastery belies a hidden history of training by one of the region's vicious clans, Xu doggedly pursues the shy...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WUSummary: "Set in Fo Shan, China during the Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man vividly brings to life the brutality of the infamous Japanese occupation, where once proud men are forced to fight [to the] death for a precious bag of rice. Defined by courage and humility, Ip Man, whose fighting skills are revered all over China, rises to the fore front. Upon refusing to teach his martial arts to the invading...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IPSummary: "Two homicidal grifters perversely turn the tables on a corrupt system of unregulated mines and negligent owners by befriending fellow miners, murdering them in staged 'accidents', and then passing their victims off as relatives in order to pocket their employer's hush money"--Cntainer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLISummary: "Ying Zheng, the King of Qin, has one driving ambition: to unify China's seven kingdoms into one magnificent empire. Impressed by her lover's convictions, Lady Zhao helps Ying Zheng concoct an assassination plot that would justify the conquest of Qin's most powerful enemy"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EMPSummary: In the early 1600s, the Manchurians have taken over sovereignty of China and established the Ching Dynasty. The new government immediately imposes a martial arts ban, forbidding the practice of martial arts altogether in order to gain control.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SEVWino
Contents: Adrift -- I don't care -- Hold on love -- Mala suerte - Old and alone -- Iron horse/Born to lose -- Suzane's song -- D-bear -- Whatever -- Shot in the head -- O.B. E. -- Green speed.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Exile On Mainstream Records 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WINYang, Jwing-Ming
Summary: Applying an ancient Chinese healing art to a common health problem, the author presents a variety of Qigong techniques that will alleviate the pain and suffering caused by arthritis.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: YMAA Publication Center 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.722 YANWINGS.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WINSummary: After having the emperor's minister of defense executed, a power-grabbing eunuch sends assassins to trail the victim's children to a remote point on the northern Chinese border. But that bloodthirsty mission is confounded by a mysterious group of fighters who arrive on the scene, intent on delivering justice and defending the innocent.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DRAHong, Ying
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HONG, YING HONJing Ying Soloists
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1981
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/ASIAN LIKHong, Ying
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marion Boyars 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 895.1352 HONLissie
Contents: Unravel -- Sad -- Chasing the sun -- Lonesome wine -- Night moves -- Flowers -- Carving canyons -- I hate this -- Unlock the chains -- Hearts on fire -- Yellow roses -- Midnight.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK LISSummary: Once upon a time in China: The legendary martial arts teacher Wong Fei-hung, with a band of disciples, battles a host of nefarious forces--foreign and local--who are threatening Chinese sovereignty as British and American imperialists encroach upon the Mainland.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONC1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD FOREIGN ONC
Summary: Set in the ferocious Gobi Desert, the story follows Lieutenant Li and Japanese emissary Lai Xi, both first-class warriors and master swordsmen. After decades of service to the Chinese Emperor, Lai Xi longs to return to Japan, but is instead sent to the west to chase wanted criminals. His only passport back to Japan is to capture and execute Lieutenant Li, a renegade soldier wanted for leading a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WARSummary: As tears go by: Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2021
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Summary: For the first time in one volume—an extraordinary spiritual odyssey of the making of the Taoist master Kwan Saihung. Born into a wealthy family in a remote province of China, Kwan defies his parents' wishes and enters into the rigorous and mysterious discipline of Taoist practice. Renamed "Little Butterfly" by his Taoist masters, he survives the upheaval of the Japanese occupation, and the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 1993