By his early 20s Monet was living in Paris, where he submitted himself to a series of failed efforts at formal artistic training.
PAGE 1 Book Review Suburban Suffering Blake Bailey's biography of John Cheever discloses the addicted urges and self-pity to which he submitted himself, Geoffrey Wolff writes.
To play Falstaff, he relied on the same variety of body-horror transformation that he submitted himself to in "Mr. Arkadin," "Touch of Evil," and even in the self-aging scenes of "Citizen Kane".
He was fascinated with what is now called the built environment and painted it in all its manifestations with a degree of precision perfected, most likely, when he submitted himself to Fernand Léger's teaching in Paris in 1949.
"But the support, I think, is even above and beyond dollars and cents," said Barry Feldman, the town manager who is so enthusiastic that he submitted himself to public ridicule last spring at a roast to benefit the project.
One was the young Jeff Koons, who, as a student in Maryland in the early '70s, was galvanized by his discovery of Paschke's work and transferred to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he submitted himself to that master's tutelage and worked as his studio assistant.
It was obviously a distant dream, but I knew then that's what I wanted to do.' Henman, embarking on his eighth attempt at the men's title this week, does not always receive a favourable press, particularly when he submits himself to interviews by general feature writers.
And here comes Blake Bailey's stunningly detailed biography, exploring step by stumbling step the crooked path that Cheever followed, disclosing the addicted urges and bawling self-pity ("What did I ever do to deserve this") to which he submitted himself and those within his household.
Confessing in open court to "carnal copulation" with Margaret Wheeler, he submitted himself for correction and was sentenced to open penance "in a white sheet (according to custom)" before the Congregation on three Sundays.
