The deliberation was short, and the verdict a ringing guilty. Lou will be deprived of mirrors for five years, and for five other years he will have to ask his parole officer for authorisation before watching himself in a looking-glass. His wives left the court arm in arm with their lawyers. Dancing and singing their hearts off, they went to celebrate their victory between the gilded mirrors of a posh downtown restaurant. Lou got out by the back door, letting his inefficient counsel face the reporters in the court entrance. Mr Leporc described his client as a "man deeply hurt by this judicial masquerade", though he did not tell if he intended to appeal. All the commentators are asking today the same questions. Will Lou, the 10,000-women man, be able to endure his estrangement from his own image? Will his incredible strength, that he drew from a daily self-contemplation, survive five long years of deprivation? And more important perhaps, will his wives and mistresses (the latter unable allowed to file suit for legal reasons) recover at least some of the youth that he literally vampirized from them? There are people to say that this devil of a man, far from being