Peeping Toms, mysterious doubles, evil twins, mirrors, video cameras, film clips, tape recordings — all are predictable elements of a De Palma movie.
Such talk about sorcery and mysterious doubles isn't delivered here with the sort of dazzling sleight of hand that have made Mr. Rushdie's most powerful work, like the most powerful work of Gabriel García Márquez, so mesmerizing and so phantasmagorical.
She is reflected in the mirrors that line the walls of the practice salles, in the windows of subway trains passing through dark tunnels, and in the faces of the mysterious doubles — strangers on the street and rivals in the company — that her character, Nina Sayers, mistakes for herself.
The researchers, from Britain and Japan, were seeking clues to the mysterious doubling in asthma cases in developed countries over the past 20 years, an increase not seen in less developed countries.
His partner made a mysterious negative double when West bid three spades, and he jumped to six hearts over four spades.
