That's because his hall of mirrors reflected back his own views.

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Creating an artful, oddly affecting hall of mirrors, Mr. Kiarostami filmed the actual trial of the imposter but also restaged events, casting some of the real-life participants.

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This is a movie of gleaming surfaces -- veteran DP Roger Deakins turns a glass skyscraper at night into a funhouse hall of mirrors, and a floating Macau casino is like an oasis in the black sea.

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Goodwin herself seemed trapped in a hall of mirrors last month after The Weekly Standard accused her of plagiarizing from several sources in her hugely popular The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, a 1987 bestseller that later was made into a successful TV miniseries.

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Even the New York Times is now acknowledging the obvious: the principal beneficiary of the forced departure of an Egyptian dictator, Hosni Mubarak - a double-dealing leader who nonetheless passed, in the hall of mirrors that is Mideast politics, for a reliable U.S. ally - will likely be the Muslim Brotherhood (MB or Ikhwan in Arabic).

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All moonlight might be sunshine, bounced off a hall of celestial mirrors.

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Some days, the menu is a kooky graphic collage, and until recently the bathroom was a neon-fluorescent hall of triangular mirrors. (Perhaps in response to quizzical attention, it has been toned down.) Geometric forms abound, the furniture looks vaguely Scandinavian woodsy yet sleek and the over-all feeling is that of a hippie ski cabin.

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