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Word: huntsmen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another pet phrase, voiced by the rather dazed huntsmen and villagers of the dream scenes is, "They say seeing is believing..." This is usually muttered after the hacked-off forepaw or noggin of a wolf develops hominoid traits in instant coffee fashion...

Author: By Lyn Dilorio, | Title: Visual Howls | 5/10/1985 | See Source »

...Tatterhood, Phelps writes that "we shall never know" whether the heroine was lovely or plain, because it does not matter. Phelps also adds a brush stroke here and there to make the females more active. In "The Twelve Huntsmen," she has the prince collapse at the key moment, not the girl. The Maid of the North, in the original version, fends off a suitor by talking up the disadvantages of leaving home to join a stranger's household...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Feminist Folk and Fairy Tales | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

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