He developed a lifelong devotion to the work of the Salvation Army.
But in the case of Pacino-De Niro-Scorsese, do we have to collude with them in such slavish devotion to the work?
De Palma's cinephilic devotion, to the works of Hitchcock and others (such as Stanley Kubrick and Michelangelo Antonioni), is conflicted and cautionary he sees movies as a source of hidden truths that risk becoming traps and delusions.
Tennessee Williams showed his devotion to the work of Anton Chekhov in a variety of ways — "The Notebook of Trigorin," a "free adaptation" of "The Seagull," for instance, was one of the last plays that Williams worked on before his death, in 1983.
Mrs. Matter practiced as she preached, spending months, and sometimes years, working on drawings and paintings that usually began as still lifes and evolved into near-abstractions animated by thatched lines that attested to her her devotion to the work of Giacometti and Cézanne.
The group stunningly re-examined the music from Conception Vessel on It Should've Happened a Long Time Ago (1984), explored a shared devotion to the work of Monk in Misterioso (1986) and recast standard songs in launching the On Broadway series of recordings that continued with various lineups into Motian's last years.
I would question his devotion to the work of Jean-Paul Riopelle, a Canadian expatriate who has lived in Paris since 1947 and whose monotonous, nature-inspired Abstract Expressionist-style paintings were overexposed in 11 shows at the Matisse gallery from 1955 to 1989.
So, simply asking scientists to express their devotion to the work they do can create the appearance of discord; each expert indicates some particular preference at odds with all the others.
Vecsey vividly describes how Donora shaped young Musial, and how Musial for the rest of his life felt devotion to the working-class town.
But his maniacal devotion to the showbiz work ethic is undeniable.
