" Michael Billington wrote, " Too much of this film has the hectoring stridency of tabloid headlines ", while Chris Petit in Time Out described it as " slick, ' adult ', self-congratulatory, and almost entirely hollow ", adding that " most of the interest comes in watching such a lavishly mounted vehicle leaving the rails so spectacularly.

Billington has championed the Library ’ s American Memory National Digital Library ( NDL ) Program, which makes freely available on-line over 24 million American historical items from the collections of the Library and other research institutions.

Billington has received 33 honoris causa degrees, as well as the Woodrow Wilson Award from Princeton University ( 1992 ), the UCLA Medal ( 1999 ), and the Pushkin Medal of the International Association of the Teachers of Russian Language and Culture ( 2000 ).

In total, Dr. Billington has received over 40 honorary degrees.

Billington was a longtime member of the editorial advisory boards of Foreign Affairs and of Theology Today, and a member of the Board of Foreign Scholarships ( 1971 – 76 ; Chairman, 1973 – 1975 ), which has executive responsibility for academic exchanges worldwide under the Fulbright-Hays Act.

Critic Michael Billington, for example, wrote, " the time for this kind of faux-naïf, sub Commedia dell ' Arte diversion has passed ".

" Great Billington " has been used as the name of the whole civil parish, but the parish council now uses the name " Billington " again.

In his review for The Guardian, Michael Billington wrote: " Time has also changed both the show and our attitude towards it.

Both Billington and Paul Taylor ( in The Independent ) give the production 4 out of 5 stars, while Charles Spencer, reviewing the production in The Daily Telegraph, like other critics making inevitable comparisons with the original production, rates it as " equally fine, with Michael Gambon and David Bradley rising magnificently to the benchmark set by their illustrious predecessors ," but points out that he too does not feel that he fully understands it: " Even after three decades I cannot claim fully to understand this haunting drama that proves by turns funny, scary, and resonantly poetic, but I have no doubt that it is one of the handful of indisputable modern classics that Pinter has written, and a piece that will haunt and tantalise the memory of all who see it.

He has seven siblings, among them Lady Antonia Fraser, a writer who was married to playwright Harold Pinter ; Lady Rachel Billington, also a writer and married to director Kevin Billington ; Judith Kazantzis, a poet ; and Kevin Pakenham, who currently works in the City of London.

Favorable reviewer Alex Billington noted, " This is just how the film industry works nowadays ; critics give bad opinions, the public usually has a differing opinion, and all is well in the world of Hollywood since the studios made their millions anyway.

David P. Billington has been particularly enthusiastic about the bridge:

Clyde Billington of Northwestern College ( Minnesota ) has dated it to AD 41, and interpreted it as evidence for the historicity of Christians preaching the resurrection of Jesus within a decade of His crucifixion.

" Of that play's subsequent London production at the Almeida Theater, critic Michael Billington of the Guardian wrote that Ong " has a remarkable gift for distilled dialogue and for pinning down the fragmentation, solitude and despair of the city of dreams.

Billington served a total of ten years in prison before being released on parole.

* Michael Billington, candidate in 1977 for County Executive of Westchester County, New York, in 1978 for New York's 24th congressional district

Billington describes Fomenko as ascribing the belief in past hostility between Russia and the Mongols to the influence of Western historians.

Billington is the author of Mikhailovsky and Russian Populism ( 1956 ), The Icon and the Axe ( 1966 ), Fire in the Minds of Men ( 1980 ), Russia Transformed: Breakthrough to Hope, August 1991 ( 1992 ) and The Face of Russia ( 1998 ), the companion book to the three-part television series of the same name, which he wrote and narrated for the Public Broadcasting Service.

* Booknotes interview with Billington on Russia Transformed, September 13, 1992.

Colonel Paul Foster ( portrayed by Michael Billington ) is a former test pilot whose plane was critically damaged when SHADO's Sky One intercepted and destroyed a UFO in close proximity to Foster's jet.

Billington is married to the former Marjorie Anne Brennan.

* Dynamite Kid, born Thomas Billington, former English professional wrestler

Librarian of Congress, James H. Billington said:

* 1929 – James H. Billington, American educator and librarian

* Billington, Ray A.

James H. Billington and Vartan Gregorian at the Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Morrill Act, 2012

Michael Billington wrote in The Guardian that " play gets richer with each viewing ... there is poetry and passion behind the mathematics and metaphysics.

" If this is not great acting I don't know what is ", wrote Michael Billington in The Guardian.

" Freyja and Frigg " as collected in Billington, Sandra and Green, Miranda.

Billington Heights is a hamlet ( and census-designated place ) located in the Town of Elma in Erie County, New York, United States.

Billington Heights lies near the border of the Town of Aurora, north of the Village of East Aurora.

Billington Heights is located at ( 42. 785709 ,-78. 619419 ).

* Billington Heights – A location in the south part of the town.

* Elizabeth Billington: A3-A6.

* Michael Billington – Critic, author and radio presenter.

The Longfords had eight children, among them the writers Lady Antonia Fraser, Lady Rachel Billington, and Thomas Pakenham.

Critic Michael Billington recalled: " In Redgrave's Vanya you saw both a tremulous victim of a lifetime's emotional repression and the wasted potential of a Chekhovian might-have-been: as Redgrave and Olivier took their joint curtain call, linked hands held triumphantly aloft, we were not to know that this was to symbolise the end of their artistic amity.

Among the many notable graduates of Lower Merion High School in Ardmore are General Henry H. " Hap " Arnold ( 1903 ), Commanding General of the U. S. Army Air Forces in WWII ; General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. ( 1942 ), the 59th United States Secretary of State ; James H. Billington ( 1946 ), the Librarian of Congress, and ; Kobe Bryant ( 1996 ), a professional NBA basketball player.

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Gere is a descendant of Mayflower Pilgrims Francis Eaton, John Billington, George Soule, Richard Warren, Degory Priest, William Brewster, and Francis Cooke.

recommend to the Congress from time to time authorization for construction and operation, or for participation in the construction and operation, of a demonstration plant for any process which he determines, on the basis of subsections ( A ) and ( B ) above, has great promise of accomplishing the purposes of this Act, such recommendation to be accompanied by a report on the size, location, and cost of the proposed plant and the engineering and economic details with respect thereto ; ;

Ares may also be accompanied by Kydoimos, the demon of the din of battle ; the Makhai (" Battles "); thev " Hysminai " (" Acts of manslaughter "); Polemos, a minor spirit of war, or only an epithet of Ares, since it has no specific dominion ; and Polemos's daughter, Alala, the goddess or personification of the Greek war-cry, whose name Ares uses as his own war-cry.

In this view, human evolution has accompanied the Earth's evolution throughout the existence of the Earth.

It sets out Nimzowitsch's most important ideas, while his second most influential work, Chess Praxis, elaborates upon these ideas, adds a few new ones, and has immense value as a stimulating collection of Nimzowitsch's own games accompanied by his idiosyncratic, hyperbolic commentary which is often as entertaining as instructive.

Her paper has only recently been rediscovered, along with the rich, artistic illustrations and drawings that accompanied it.

The introduction of these new products has also been accompanied by an increased use of traditional instruments such as loans and credit cards.

Croatia has a stable market economy accompanied by a strong and stable currency, the Kuna.

The Church also has a number of statements regarding diagnosed conditions accompanied by legal affidavits of authenticity signed by medical practitioners who witnessed a non-medical healing.

Imperial expansion has been accompanied by economic expansion since ancient times.

Arcadian cult to Demeter links her to a male deity ( Greek: Πάρεδρος, Paredros ), who accompanied the Great Goddess and has been interpreted as a possible substitution for Poseidon ; Demeter may therefore be related to a Minoan Great Goddess.

Estonia's international realignment toward the West has been accompanied by a general deterioration in relations with Russia, most recently demonstrated by the controversy surrounding relocation of the Bronze Soldier WWII memorial in Tallinn.

A complete ceremony has three rounds of coffee ( Abon, Tona Bereka ) and is accompanied by the burning of frankincense.

Anatomically the evolution of bipedalism has been accompanied by a large number of skeletal changes, not just to the legs and pelvis, but also to the vertebral column, feet and ankles, and skull.

This film has a story that happened long before which is narrated by one character in the framing scene, and initially accompanied by his narrating dialogue in intertitles, though after a while this stops, and the intertitles then convey the dialogue occurring within the flashback.

He has been dating Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments, since 2006 and she has accompanied him to several events including the 79th Academy Awards ceremony in February 2007, an American Film Institute event in October 2007, the 2008 Cannes Film Festival held in May, and the 2010 Golden Globes.

The accelerating ice flow has been accompanied by a dramatic increase in seismic activity.

This pressure difference is accompanied by a velocity difference, via Bernoulli's principle, so the resulting flowfield about the foil has a higher average velocity on one side than the other.

" Because the shift was typically not accompanied by a commensurate development of community-based services, critics say that deinstitutionalization has led to large numbers of people who would once have been inpatients being incarcerated in jails and prisons or becoming homeless when outpatient services are not available or they choose not to adhere to treatment outside the hospital.

Later in the 14th century Giovanni Boccaccio ( 1313 – 1375 ) shows us the " carola " in Florence in the Decameron ( about 1350-1353 ) which has several passages describing men and women dancing to their own singing or accompanied by musicians.

The warming trend ( Holocene ) that occurred 12, 000 years ago, accompanied by a glacial retreat and rising sea levels, has been suggested as a contributing factor.

However, the release of the Wii has been accompanied by a number of even more controversial mature titles, such as Manhunt 2, No More Heroes, The House of the Dead: Overkill and MadWorld, the latter three of which are published exclusively for the console.

Another fundamental difference is that where perestroika was accompanied by greater political freedoms under Gorbachev's glasnost policies, Chinese economic reform has been accompanied by continued authoritarian rule and a suppression of political dissidents, most notably at Tiananmen Square.

While media have reported widely the grand corruption that accompanied the sales, one study has argued that in addition to increased operating efficiency, daily petty corruption is, or would be, larger without privatization, and that corruption is more prevalent in non-privatized sectors, and that there is evidence to suggest that extralegal and unofficial activities are more prevalent in countries that privatized less.