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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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It's not so much the final scene, where Rigoletto sees events slip horribly beyond his control in discovering his beloved daughter as the victim of the assassin he hired to kill her duplicitious lover that grips the heart.
A tragedy of both power and realism by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
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
What draws you in is their slow but sure change from self-conscious, image-savvy bores to evil, duplicitious animals who would eat their stranded rivals to survive if they had to.
Brian Reade Column: Trivia's deep, mounting nigh by The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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