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- <text id=90TT3227>
- <title>
- Dec. 03, 1990: American Notes:New Mexico
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Dec. 03, 1990 The Lady Bows Out
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 57
- American Notes
- NEW MEXICO
- Lapse of Taste
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> When Roadrunners, the official magazine of the New Mexico
- State Police Association, commissioned a painting in honor of
- highway patrolmen, artist Leonard Frietze found a model that was
- "fairly moving...and bold." Said he: "It was supposed to
- epitomize an individual who wanted to gallantly protect the
- citizens." His choice: a 1938 portrait of Adolf Hitler.
- </p>
- <p> Frietze's painting appeared on the back cover of the
- magazine's fall 1990 issue and sparked a loud outcry. Susan
- Seligman, state coordinator for the Anti-Defamation League,
- denounced it as "an unfortunate and insensitive choice. Can you
- imagine a Holocaust survivor seeing the New Mexico state police
- portrayed as Hitler?" Both the magazine's editor and Frietze
- insist that they meant no Nazi overtones. The painting, Frietze
- explained, was designed only "to make the police feel good about
- themselves."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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