Last weekend, in its renovated warehouse in Bushwick, the Boston band Speedy Ortiz was playing on the kitchen floor while some of the residents were jamming upstairs in a second space known, with ironic misdirection, as the Champagne Room.
Redman — in a Warriors hat that pointed to his Bay Area roots — began by swerving through the easy melody of "As This Moment Slips Away," but it was misdirection as the band had hardier terrain in mind.
And the "Outside the Lines" investigation of the Rice case by Don Van Natta Jr. and Kevin Van Valkenburg, which influenced Mr. Simmons by describing "a pattern of misinformation and misdirection" at the league, was as tough as they come.
This subtle tale of certainty and uncertainty (the criminal never explains himself, on film and apparently in life) is abetted by storytelling and editing that make judicious use of misdirection, even as the camera captures panoramic beauty aside long takes of unblinkingly observed detail.
Cinema as an art form leans on deception and misdirection just as heavily as any stage magician.
However, in addition to this intra-dance error about the mean, there is another type of angular variation that also depends on the angle at which the bee dances; however, this error [" Restmissweisung," (residual misdirection) as von Frisch called it] does affect the mean angle., The bees, depending at which angle they dance, systematically communicate certain angles incorrectly.
Others, including this magazine's Book Bench blog, wondered if it was just a clever trap — a misdirection, as a spy might put it — meant to expose the staleness of the genre.
Such are the hazards of digital misdirection, as Mr. Weiner found out.
The stories seem to proceed as much by accident and misdirection as by design.
Mr. Shaffer, who died earlier this month, recounts his initial interest in writing a "different kind of horror film," one begun by misdirection as a murder-mystery.
What's happening is concealment and misdirection, as Teller demonstrates with a neat routine involving a vanishing cigarette, which he first performs, then flips around to reveal its artifice to the crowd.
