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Passionate and energetic by nature, Johnson felt most drawn to an Expressionist idiom. His particular heroes were Chaim Soutine (especially the convulsive Ceret landscapes) and, later, Oskar Kokoschka. At the outset, his homages to Soutine's surging hills and toppling houses had a somewhat illustrational tone -- painting from the motif, he sometimes used a distorting lens to produce the effect, as earlier landscapists had used a smoked Claude Lorraine glass -- so that the image turned out more optical than visceral. But as his sense of the relations between mark and motif increased, Johnson's landscapes accumulated power, and some...
...over the West Bank, well-armed Jewish settlers are becoming a law unto themselves, stalking the countryside with guns, shooting up Arab homes and smashing cars. President Chaim Herzog has warned that vigilante attacks "could create a most dangerous situation in the future." Last week the army announced that it would increase its estimated 4,000-troop force in the territories by 20% to combat Palestinian violence. Yet the Israeli army continues largely to turn a blind eye to the settlers' miscreant activities...
...high school did its best to shake up our literary notions. My entire ninth grade year was devoted to studying works by ethnic writers: Lawrence Yep's Child of the Owl, Chaim Potok's My Name is Ascher Lev and Richard Wright's Native Son. But one year in the span of 18 is not saying a whole...
...weeks, Israel has been effectively without a government as first Labor and then Likud attempted to patch together a ruling majority. Both parties' shameless display of vote buying has reached a new low, discrediting Israeli-style democracy at home and abroad. In his Independence Day address last week, President Chaim Herzog warned that the current "political machinations make an absolute mockery of the principles of democracy." Herzog was later handed petitions signed by 500,000 Israelis -- nearly 10% of the population -- demanding that he initiate electoral reform. Popular protest has been growing steadily. Last month 250,000 rallied...
When the votes were tallied, Shamir sank his head into his hands, perhaps to blot out the triumphant smile on Peres' face. President Chaim Herzog is now expected to give Peres the first shot at forming a new coalition, a process that could take weeks -- and that typically brings out the worst in Israeli politics. Since Labor has only 39 seats in the Knesset, against Likud's 40, Peres must bargain for the support of the smaller parties, ranging from Arab communists to Orthodox rabbis. The balance of power is held by the fickle religious parties, which control 18 seats...