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  • Katchpole, with her Dickensian name, adorably bushy hair, saucer-like eyes and a tattoo that reads "empathy," is something of a millennial media-booker's dream.

    Yvette Kantrow: Molly Katchpole Pulls a David on Goliath Bank of America Yvette Kantrow 2011

  • Katchpole, with her Dickensian name, adorably bushy hair, saucer-like eyes and a tattoo that reads "empathy," is something of a millennial media-booker's dream.

    Yvette Kantrow: Molly Katchpole Pulls a David on Goliath Bank of America Yvette Kantrow 2011

  • Just as the missile was about to be launched, a large, flying saucer-like object appeared at the site.

    Five Celebrities Who Claim To Have Seen UFOs | myFiveBest 2010

  • Nowhere is this squealing louder than Japan, where digital culture has evolved into an elaborate fantasy universe of pupil-less girl-children, lithe pubescent boys, anthropomorphised mammals, and, in fact, any object on which you can glue saucer-like, heavily-lashed eyes.

    Claire Gordon: The Internet is Awwwwww! 2010

  • Nowhere is this squealing louder than Japan, where digital culture has evolved into an elaborate fantasy universe of pupil-less girl-children, lithe pubescent boys, anthropomorphised mammals, and, in fact, any object on which you can glue saucer-like, heavily-lashed eyes.

    Claire Gordon: The Internet is Awwwwww! 2010

  • The instant after the cord was cut, I was holding him and gazing into his beautiful, saucer-like brown eyes.

    On the Right Track Marion Jones 2010

  • The instant after the cord was cut, I was holding him and gazing into his beautiful, saucer-like brown eyes.

    On the Right Track Marion Jones 2010

  • The instant after the cord was cut, I was holding him and gazing into his beautiful, saucer-like brown eyes.

    On the Right Track Marion Jones 2010

  • New York will now most likely introduce a no-fly zone over the city for silver, saucer-like balloons with 6-year-olds in the baskets.

    Max Kolonko: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 2009

  • Ever since the silver, saucer-like shaped object (why saucer-like?) "accidently" came loose off its tether, the PR department of the hot head from Fort Collins performed like a well greased Hollywood machine making six phone calls after the event: first ones to the FAA for air support and a local television station for coverage.

    Max Kolonko: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 2009

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