text: 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 .
  
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  Rothko died when he was a baby .