374. Detached?

This sub-genre of alternative rock which originated in the United Kingdom during the late 1980s gets its name for the following facts. First, the band members stood relatively still during the live performances in a detached, contemplative and passive state with their heads down. Second, the bands made use of effect pedals using their feet. What music genre I am talking about?


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373. Mind and Body?

This fitness physical system was designed by the German gymnast Joseph ______ during the First World War as a method to improve the rehabilitation program for the returning war veterans. The exercise regimen was based on the idea that the functioning of muscles is controlled by the mind and hence, he termed his method as Contrology. But today the method is known by the founder’s last name. Which is this one of the most popular fitness programs am I talking about?

372. A complex one

Connect the following elements (not an exhaustive list)

a. Artur London, a Czechoslovakian communist minister arrested and tried for alleged treason and espionage in a "show trial" during the Stalin period.

b. US police official and alleged torture expert Dan Mitrione

c. An American journalist, Charles Horman, who disappeared in the bloody coup led by General Augusto Pinochet in Chile in 1973

d. The strange case of John Demjanjuk

e. The highly controversial 1963 play, Der Stellvertreter. Ein christliches Trauerspiel (The Deputy, a Christian Tragedy), by Rolf Hochhuth

371. Stampede of noisy elephants?

The sound produced by them has been compared to "a stampede of noisy elephants," "a deafening swarm of locusts,""a goat on the way to slaughter"and "a giant hive full of very angry bees. Some Freddie "Saddam" Maake claims to have invented it by adapting an aluminium version from a bicycle horn after removing the black rubber to blow with his mouth. He later found it to be too short and joined a pipe to make it longer.
What am I talking about?

370. Life beyond Second Life?

Where would you encounter the following entities?

Solaria
Mayuravaas
Noom
Turqua
Snowflash
Re-Janm

369. Escaping the wrath?

This term gets its origin from the 17th Century French practice of signatories to petitions against government officials adding their names on a document in a non-hierarchical circle so that none can be identified as a ring leader. The term finds frequent usage in various areas especially in sports.

Which term?

368. A quick one, that does not conform!

If that which does not conform is called treif, then what would you call that which conforms?