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The LAT, WP, and the WSJ report that this could topple the current ruling coalition, but the NYT (which reefers the story) downplays the results, and the menace posed by the party and its leader, Joerg Haider.
The paper downplays any leftover bitterness from the Falklands War or the 1986 World Cup match in which Argentina beat England on an illegal play: "Maybe during the war we were angry.
And the movie occasionally downplays Kaufman's part in bringing about his own professional decline.
(Needless to say, any time a CEO downplays her own talent, it's nice, but still ...)
He accuses Richardson both of crudeness (he sees sex as the meaning of every painting) and of whitewashing his subject (he downplays Picasso's misogyny): "Without the Continuing Saga of Pablo's Greatness, there's not much there, except some wonderful drawings and a lot of irritability."