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After the French Revolution, Dom Pérignon's legacy was kept hushed until the 20th century, when it re-emerged as a sensation. In 1936, Doris Duke purchased 100 bottles of the first vintage sold in the U.S.; 68 years later, a case of that vintage sold at auction for nearly $25,000. Grace Kelly requested that it be served at her wedding to Prince Rainier, Elizabeth Taylor celebrated her 1961 Oscar win over a bottle of it, and Aristotle Onassis was known to keep a chilled bottle at the ready at Maxim's restaurant in Paris. Marilyn Monroe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Bubble | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

...Indeed, even before GM, Ford and Chrysler officials submit recovery proposals Tuesday in hopes of persuading Congress to steer aid their way, Europe has started to react. French President Nicolas Sarkozy proposed a four-year, 400 million-euro package to help French automakers build more environmentally friendly cars. Sarkozy also called last week for the loosening of E.U. restrictions on direct state aid to companies, restrictions established to encourage more-competitive markets in Europe. "We can't have the Americans unlocking $25 billion in loans for their three manufacturers while we would be caught up in a state-assistance regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit Bailout Fueling Trade Tensions with Europe | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

...much of the world, President Nicolas Sarkozy enjoys a reputation for being something of a diplomatic dynamo. In China, the energetic French leader has a strikingly different standing: he is Beijing's favorite international whipping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why China Keeps Picking on Sarkozy | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

...Soon after the art of photography emerged in the mid-19th century, photographing naked women became one of the first orders of business. The French ruled the early days of pornography publishing, distributing programs for Parisian cabarets adorned with topless dancers as early as the 1870s. While some Americans attempted to import racy material from Europe, the industry was blunted in the U.S. by the Comstock Act, an 1873 federal statute that restricted the transport of obscene literature through the mail. (Anthony Comstock, the head of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, was perhaps the anti-Hefner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girlie Mags | 12/1/2008 | See Source »

...know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant. I think when I quit - about twenty years ago, before I took it up again - it was because it didn't seem like readers were getting that distinction. I'd get calls about, "Where's the third-best French restaurant in Chicago?" I don't have any idea, or even any credentials for deciding. I think my experience with people asking solemn questions about where the best this or that is shows how easy it is to be considered an expert in this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calvin Trillin | 12/1/2008 | See Source »

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