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deception

In warfare, the use of dummies, decoys, and electronics to trick the enemy into believing in and preparing to defend against armies that do not exist.

The Allied ground offensive in the 1991 Gulf War was launched 160 km/100 mi west of where the Iraqi army was led to believe it would take place. The deception techniques used completely wrong-footed the Iraqi forces.



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The point is, Holm--who once played the duplicitious android in Alien and a telepathic pharmaceutical hallucination in Cronenberg's Naked Lunch--is a confident acrobat when it comes to walking the tightrope between feeling and expression, the nebulous limbo which draws Egoyan the same way that existential crisis compels Antonioni or hypocrisy lured Bunuel.
Death, Canadian style: Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter by Pevere, Geoff / Take One
The point is, Holm--who once played the duplicitious android in Alien and a telepathic pharmaceutical hallucination in Cronenberg's Naked Lunch --is a confident acrobat when it comes to walking the tightrope between feeling and expression, the nebulous limbo that draws Egoyan the same way that existential crisis compels Antonioni or hypocrisy lured Bunuel.
Atom Egoyan's The sweet hereafter: death, Canadian style by Pevere, Geoff / Take One
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