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Wain was often referred to as one of the " Angry Young Men ", a term applied to 1950s writers such as John Braine, John Osborne, Alan Sillitoe and Keith Waterhouse, radicals who opposed the British establishment and conservative elements of society at that time.
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The script, bought by Universal Pictures, was written by Rudd, Ken Marino, and David Wain, with the latter also directing the film, and was produced by Judd Apatow.
* Louis Wain ( artist ) was famous for painting cats ; he later developed schizophrenia, which some believe was caused by toxoplasmosis resulting from his prolonged exposure to cats.
Burmeister & Wain was a large established Danish shipyard and leading diesel engine producer headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Shortly thereafter, in 1843 he was granted a Danish Royal Charter and what would later become Burmeister & Wain was launched with the opening of a mechanical workshop in Copenhagen.
He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy that year, and in 1821 he showed The Hay Wain ( a view from Flatford Mill ) at the Academy's exhibition.
Théodore Géricault saw it on a visit to London and was soon praising Constable in Paris, where a dealer, John Arrowsmith, bought four paintings, including The Hay Wain, which was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1824, winning a gold medal.
It was directed by David Wain and written by Wain and Michael Showalter ( who also stars in the movie ).
As a catchphrase, the term was applied to a large, incoherently defined group, and was rejected by most of the writers to whom it was applied ; see for instance " Answer to a Letter from Joe " by John Wain ( Essays on Literature and Ideas, 1963 ).
In May 2010, Phúc was reunited by the BBC with ITN correspondent Christopher Wain, who helped to save her life.
Louis Wain ( 5 August 1860 – 4 July 1939 ) was an English artist best known for his drawings, which consistently featured anthropomorphised large-eyed cats and kittens.
Louis William Wain was born on 5 August 1860 in Clerkenwell in London.
Wain was born with a cleft lip and the doctor gave his parents the orders that he should not be sent to school or taught until he was ten years old.
At the age of 20, Wain was left to support his mother and his five sisters after his father's death.
At the age of 23, Wain married his sisters ' governess, Emily Richardson, who was ten years his senior ( which was considered quite scandalous at the time ), and moved with her to Hampstead in north London.
Wain was a prolific artist over the next thirty years, sometimes producing as many as several hundred drawings a year.
Wain was involved with several animal charities, including the Governing Council of Our Dumb Friends League, the Society for the Protection of Cats, and the Anti-Vivisection Society.
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It is also referred to as the " Wain ".
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He illustrated about one hundred children's books, and his work appeared in papers, journals, and magazines, including the Louis Wain Annual, which ran from 1901 to 1915.
Although The Hay Wain is revered today as one of the greatest British paintings, when it was originally exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1821 ( under the title Landscape: Noon ), it failed to find a buyer.
The film was listed by David Wain as one of his " guilty pleasures " in the May / June 2012 issue of Film Comment.
As one third of the comedy troupe Stella, Wain has hosted a long running NYC nightclub show, toured the United States, made a series of shorts, and created a 2005 series on Comedy Central.
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* John Wain, Young Shoulders
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" The writer John Wain thought the book " not a success in novelistic terms ", but saw, " vitality in its hinterland.
* In an episode of " Stella " Season 1, Episode 7 " Camping ", Michael Ian Black points out to David Wain that he is not white, but " quite obviously " an octoroon.
Nevertheless, it may be more accurate to associate Wain with " The Movement ", a group of post-war poets including Kingsley Amis, D. J.
Harvey's old music tapes include the vocalist Bea Wain ; her recording of " My Reverie ", discussed in two separate chapters, serves as a symbol of the generation gap.
John Wain in his own autobiography " Sprightly Running ", recalled of the neurotic poet that he emerged from Oxford with a backward looking, almost Johnsonian determination to dig in and cherish the old values while the tide of modernism swept over him.
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Wain taught at the University of Reading during the late 1940s and early 1950s, and in 1963 spent a term as professor of rhetoric at Gresham College, London.
" Wain " is also an archaic term for chariot.
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The Programme's contribution to contemporary poetry and criticism was outstanding, under producers and presenters such as John Wain, Ludovic Kennedy, George MacBeth and Patrick Dickinson ; here it promoted young writers such as Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis, as well as the " difficult " work of David Jones and Laura Riding.
Wain was also a prolific poet and critic, with critical works on fellow Midlands writers Arnold Bennett, Samuel Johnson ( for which he was awarded the 1974 James Tait Black Memorial Prize ), and William Shakespeare.
Contributing writers to the site have included notable comedians Christian Finnegan, David Wain, Paul Scheer, Amir Blumenfeld, Justin Johnson, Judah Friedlander.
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Companies such as MAN B & W Diesel, ( formerly Burmeister & Wain ) and Wärtsilä ( which acquired Sulzer Diesel ) design such large low-speed engines.
Emily's spirits were greatly lifted by Peter, and Wain taught him tricks, such as wearing spectacles and pretending to read, in order to amuse his wife.
David Wain, founder of comedy troupe The State, was a high-school friend of Wedren's, and Wedren's music has appeared in many television series and films stemming from the troupe and its alumni, such as Reno 911 and Wet Hot American Summer.
From 1957 and throughout the 1960s, he performed a steady stream of roles in various television series, such as Jan in The Silver Sword ( 1957-58 ), Tim Birch in Emergency Ward 10 ( 1963-64 ), and Roger Wain in Coronation Street ( 1965 ).
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More infrequent visitors included Percy Bates, Charles Leslie Wrenn, Colin Hardie, James Dundas-Grant, John David Arnett, Jon Fromke, John Wain, R. B. McCallum, Gervase Mathew, and C. E. Stevens.
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The House of Lords passes a bill to grant George IV a divorce from Queen Caroline, but due to public pressure the bill is dropped, John Constable begins work on The Hay Wain.
Enright, John Wain, Elizabeth Jennings, Thom Gunn, and Robert Conquest.
Kingsley Amis, Robert Conquest, Donald Davie, D. J. Enright, Thom Gunn, John Holloway, Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, and John Wain.
They included Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, and John Wain, all of whom were also part of the poetic circle known as The Movement.
* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: John Wain, Samuel Johnson
Mildly left-wing in youth, he later moved ( like his contemporaries Kingsley Amis and John Wain ) to the political right, and supported America's involvement in Vietnam.
John Barrington Wain ( 14 March 1925 – 24 May 1994 ) was an English poet, novelist, and critic, associated with the literary group " The Movement ".
John Wain, A Man of Letters.
* " L ' Art de John Wain, Poete ": Edward Black, PhD Thesis, Universite de Caen 1965.
* " The Novels of John Wain ": Dr. K. Kumar, PhD Thesis, Ranchi University, 1979
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