Word of the Day
The gigantic success of this film in France has made a national, and maybe soon international star of its 23-year-old lead Audrey Tautou, who plays Amelie Poulain, the delectable young gamine employed as a waitress in a Montmartre cafe. -- Peter Bradshaw, "Jolie good show", The Guardian, October 5, 2001
He was nineteen years old, and officially a medical student, though inevitably his studies were in abeyance for the duration of the war. -- Ruth Brandon, Surreal Lives: The Surrealists 1917-1945