Word: pimpernel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Schama's splendid recounting soon convinces us, however, that much of what we thought we knew is wrong, a collection of Hollywood versions of 19th century romances: Leslie Howard as "that demmed elusive Pimpernel," or Ronald Colman doing a "far, far better thing" by accepting the fate prescribed by Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities. Schama's reality is very different from the legends...
...mind, this duality was part of the ever active debate over what was true and what false in cubist representation, where fragments of the real world (including the news) combined with unreal space. To complicate things further, the man at the café-melting away, like the elusive Pimpernel, into the wood work-probably depicts Gris' favorite character pulp fiction. He was a supercrook named Fantómas, whose nefarious deeds were eagerly devoured by Picasso, Apollinaire and everyone in the cubist circle. Appearing and disappearing at will, frustrating the law at every turn, Fant...