a totalitarian regime

And yet, just as it made FunHouse look daring, that peculiar Bogosian anticharm managed to turn Talk Radio into an intriguingly nasty, itchy piece of work.

Standing in the middle of the courtyard, some twenty paces from him were three silent ominous figures in green paramilitary style uniforms, jack booted and wearing peaked caps on which was an undefined insignia.

Do the stars scintillate at all altitudes? Is there any altitude at which it ceases to manifest itself? At Morges the stars in general scintillate at all altitudes, although feebly near the zenith; but on the nights when the scintillation is very faint, it ceases completely at a zenith distance of 45°.