O youth and beauty!

O youth and beauty! [videorecording] / a teleplay by A.R. Gurney, Jr., based on the story by John Cheever; produced by Ann Blumenthal; directed by Jeff Bleckner.

A dramatization of the John Cheever story whose protagonist is one of the well-to-do commuters in the Shady Hill stories, Cash Bentley. At the age of 40, Cash is a slightly inebriated suburbanite, confronting his mid-life crisis by hurdling over his host's furniture, hoping to recapture the athletic prowess that made him a track star in his college days. His embarrassed wife is unable to halt her husband's obsessive ritual, as he tries to hang on to his fading youth and vigor, and prove he's still a man and an athlete.

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O. Henry's full house

O. Henry's full house [videorecording] / producer, Andre Hakim; directors, Henry Koster ... [et al.].

John Steinbeck introduces dramatizations of five of O. Henry's short stories.

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The gift of the Magi

O. Henry's The gift of the Magi [videorecording] / [Monterey Media; producer, Jere Rae-Mansfield; adapted for the screen and directed by Scott Mansfield].

A husband and wife sacrifice treasured possessions in order to buy each other Christmas presents.

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Obama's war

Obama's war [videorecording] / a FRONTLINE Co-Production with RAINmedia, Inc; written and produced by Marcela Gaviria and Martin Smith; co-produced by Will Cohen and Timothy Grucza; edited by Jason Schmidt.

"Tens of thousands of fresh American troops are now on the move in Afghanistan, led by a new commander and armed with a counterinsurgency plan that builds on the lessons of Iraq. But can U.S. forces succeed in a land long known as the "graveyard of empires"? And can the U.S. stop the Taliban in neighboring Pakistan, where U.S. troops are not allowed and the government is weak? In Obama's War, veteran correspondent Martin Smith travels across Afghanistan and Pakistan to see first-hand how the president's new strategy is taking shape, delivering vivid, on-the-ground reporting from this eight-year-old war's many fronts. Through interviews with top generals, diplomats and government officials, Smith also reports the internal debates over President Obama's grand attempt to combat terrorism at its roots."-- Frontline website.

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Obchod na korze

Obchod na korze [videorecording] / *Ceskoslovenský filmový ústav; Barrandov Films Studios; directors, Jan Kadar, Elmar Klos; screenplay, Ladislav Grosman, J. Kadár, E. Klos.

In 1942, Tono and his wife are struggling because of his antipathy towards the fascist regime. His brother-in-law, the local fuehrer, chooses Tono to oversee a button shop owned by a sweet, harmless Jewish widow, Mrs. Lautman. Unable to explain his position to Mrs. Lautman, Tono gradually accepts her belief that he is her assistant. When the Jews are ordered deported, the well-meaning Tono decides to shield her from the Nazis.

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Obedience :

Obedience: [videorecording] a reenactment.

This program presents segments from a reenactment of Stanley Milgram's classic experiment on obedience to authority. It raises questions about the ethics of psychological experimentation with human subjects.

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Obedience

Obedience [videorecording (DVD)] / chief investigator, Stanley Milgram; production, Stanley Milgram.

Presents Stanley Milgram's classic research on obedience to authority through candid footage shot at Yale University in May 1962. Documents both obedient and defiant reactions of subjects who are instructed to administer electric shocks of increasing severity to another person and shows subjects explaining their actions after the experiment.

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Objectified

Objectified [videorecording] / a Swiss Dots production; a film by Gary Hustwit; produced and directed by Gary Hustwit.

"A feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. In his second film, director Gary Hustwit (Helvetica) documents the creative processes of some of the world's most influential product designers, and looks at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets"--Container.

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Objects and memory

Objects and memory [videorecording] / produced and directed by Jonathan Fein and Brian Danitz; an EVER production.

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The oblongs. The complete twisted series

The oblongs. The complete twisted series [videorecording] / Oblong Productions; Cartoon Network; Adult Swim.

Based on Angus Oblong's underground cartoon world. The Oblongs live next to a polluted swamp that has left them with the occasional missing limb or mysterious growth, but through it all, this close-knit family sticks together. Sometimes literally.

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