Take the following as truth: For Rothko, too, there were the years of apprenticeship, the hard-won discovery of a classic but ultimately restrictive format (Rothko's stacked rectangles are not unlike Lowell's sonnets and John Berryman's dream songs), the succession of wives, the acclaim, and the descent into alcohol, paranoia, depression, and suicide.
Then the following statement: "Rothko's life took a somewhat cliched path." is true, false, or inconclusive?
Answer: True