That might sound like a rather steep trajectory, but finding success via series of televised popularity contests is, I imagine, a particularly brutal path through what's probably the most savage sector of the entertainment business.
Though the couple grew up five miles apart and Ms. Bez was friends with Mr. Savage's sister, their paths did not cross until a night in October 2006, when a mutual friend encouraged Ms. Bez to meet her in a New York restaurant for Mr. Savage's homecoming from his first deployment in Iraq.
Along with Inspector Anna-Maria Mella, she delves into the background of grisly crimes in such novels as 'the Savage Altar' and 'The Black Path'.
Kyle – who called any Iraqi in his path overseas a "savage" much more often in real life than in Cooper's rendition – portrays a type of American manhood that is instantly recognizable in the United States.
Pietersen accused Graves of "leading him down the garden path" while similarly savaging the ECB chief executive, Tom Harrison, for arranging the meeting with Strauss despite previously telling him he wanted no such talks if it was simply to reiterate his continued exile from the national team.
This path culminated in a savage little fairy tale about Vladimir V. Putin's Russia, "Day of the Oprichnik," which suddenly, and for the first time, positioned Mr. Sorokin as a direct combatant in Russian politics.
But soon afterwards, "he decided I was no longer following the path he created"; later, Woodhead savaged the 14-19 report as "kowtowing to educational fads".
Adore features an attempt to staple Savages' noisy atmospherics to something approaching a lighters-out rock ballad – indeed, there are a few, very faint suggestions dotted about the album that Savages can see themselves taking a similar path from angularity to mass air-punch-inducement as U2.
Lurking in the weeds, as well, are the critics who may savage you for not striking out on a new path, just resting on the superstructure that you've already built.
