GN: Many years ago on the occasion of the publication of Leni Riefenstahl's publication of the photographic study of the Masai (sp?) in Africa there was a long attack on her in the New York Review of Books. The writer argued that Riefenstahl was able to make the Olympics "fascist" even *with* the primacy of Mr. Owen, that he was absorbed into the overall fete of physicality and nationalism. There was then a long analysis of why tyhe photographs of the Masai were Nazi-ish. But I think that *anything* that Ms. Riefenstahl photographed would have been open to the interpretation of covert Nazism given her history. But, to stay on the topic, the essayist's point was that Nazism was "big enough" to take a black runner's success. -gn.
-- Gregory P. Nowell Associate Professor Department of Political Science, Milne 100 State University of New York 135 Western Ave. Albany, New York 12222
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