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...right to these allegations. As you know, there are two kinds of FBI files: raw and refined. Raw files, which should be taken with a fresh acidic wine such as Muscadet or Sancerre, contain the most salacious and lewd rumors gleaned from the most untrustworthy and reprehensible scum on earth. Their original function was to provide amusing bedtime reading for J. Edgar Hoover (which is why he kept them in the bureau). Today they enable the FBI to keep U.S. crime statistics low by threatening to give the media the raw files of anyone even thinking about going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ol' Black-and-Blue Eyes | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...thousands of members and sympathizers gathered for their annual fund-raising fair, the fête de l'humanité, in a 37-acre park in the working-class Paris suburb of La Courneuve. While construction workers, secretaries and concierges wrestled with their crepes, foie gras and muscadet in the pounding rain, party leaders were striving to maintain loyalty on the most emotional issue of the day: the shooting down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 by the Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Communist Shrinking Pains | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

Around the bend of the roller coaster, a booth peddled oysters, glasses of chilled Muscadet and posters decrying Brittany's disastrous oil spill of last spring. With a fine Gallic disdain for international worker solidarity, another food kiosk sold sangria and the message: SPAIN IN THE COMMON MARKET. A BAD BLOW FOR FRANCE. Workers hawked dish towels underneath a sign pleading SAVE THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY OF THE VOSGES. Break-the-bottle games featured images of such popular villains as French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, that advocate of dreaded social...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Pique-nic | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

LOIRE VALLEY. An abundant crop of high-quality wine has been in the vats for a month. Muscadet, the dry, fruity white, and the slightly sweet Rose D'Anjou, which are best drunk young, will remain some of the best bargains anywhere at around $3. The reds, such as Chinon, Bourgeuil and Saumur-Cham-pigny. show every sign of excellence. The whites, Pouilly-Fumé, Sancerre and Vouvray, were also exceptional. Loire Valley wines will go up 10% and be drinkable within a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The '76 Grapes of Joy | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

...colletage, which ended at about the navel, without committing lèse-majesté. The occasion: a money-raising bash to buy paintings from various worthy artists. After panting up the 80 Steps to Host Robert Rauschenberg's panoramic pad, the 300 guests nibbled at salmon and sipped Muscadet (from artistic plastic cups) while ogling a Who's Who of the beaux-arts, notably Roy Lichtenstein, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist and Andy Warhol. "I think this is a very beautiful experience," decided the princess. "We should have more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 13, 1972 | 11/13/1972 | See Source »

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