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...The book also provides the story’s basic shape: a Greek tragedy, structured around the trial-by-any-other-name Oppenheimer faced during the postwar inquisitions of Joseph McCarthy....
...Joseph Gilgun is wonderfully expressive as Vinnie, his volatile features continually scrunching together and apart like the top of a drawstring bag....
...He therefore used the empty office hours to write his tales about the “consulting detective” who was based on Joseph Bell, the Edinburgh surgeon who knew at a glance what was wrong with the patients parading...
...What could have been a sluggish pseudo-academic debate is full of pace, swagger and playful anecdote – who knew that Robert Downey Jr protested against the use of digital photography in Zodiac by leaving...
...Period feeling is non-existent among well-known actors in fancy dress taking name checks (Thomas Huxley, Joseph Hooker)....
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