Word: downplay
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...lesbian at her, she goes to pieces." During the 1970 Women's Strike for Equality that marked the 50th anniversary of women's suffrage, the issue of lesbianism burst into the open. Some feminist leaders, warned that the participation of lesbians would overshadow other issues, tried to downplay the controversial subject during the marches and rallies. A quiet, often bitter debate followed; the result was a declaration from N.O.W. and tacit agreement by local groups that freedom of sexual orientation was a humanist concern and therefore could not be ignored by Women's Liberation. Nonetheless, lesbianism...
...rave notices around the Dunster House women's table. The Wrongway Inn never abandons the stock in trade of Pudding tradition--the puns, the double-entendres, and the female ingenue who goes around complaining that her "boobalas" aren't big enough. But it does do its best to downplay the leers. But it spectacle owes more to Gilbert and Sullivan, Yankee Doodle Dandy and 1776 than you might be prepared to expect...
...cover story-on Japan's economy and foreign trade-is his fifth in 13 months. "Finding out just what is news in business and economics is the challenge," he says. "In this field, big stories almost never came labeled BIG STORY. The fact that businessmen often try to downplay events makes the assignment that much more interesting...
Noting that the best of the tested seats absorbed only 15% of the energy of impact, the Michigan researchers suggested that snowmobile makers could reduce injury by significantly stiffening the materials used in their machines' cushions. To discourage reckless driving, some makers have already decided to downplay jumping in new advertising. But the most important step toward preventing injuries must be taken by the nation's some 1,600,000 snowmobilers, who can save spines by avoiding acrobatics...
...promote their avidly sought democratic image, the Communists of Emilia-Romagna not only twit their comrades in other countries, they go out of their way to downplay their own presence. Although more than 400,000 of Italy's 1,492,000 card-carrying party members live in the region, President Fanti scoffs at Christian Democratic fears that the Reds intend to build a Moscow-style monolithic state. All the Communists want, he says soothingly, is a society "which is pluralistic, in which no ideology or faith would have an exclusive or privileged position...