As the students reach the end of their Shakespearean escape (references to "A Midsummer Night's" and the sonnets also pass tellingly through the piece) and prepare to return to the conformist, faceless grind, the Romeo hesitates.
On TV there were the usual discussions about how long the captivity had been endured, about why the girls growing into women could not or did not escape earlier, references to the Stockholm syndrome, and questions about how psychologically scarred they would remain and whether therapy would help.
Yet if "shipping" has replaced the musical subcultures of old, then what's lacking is the possibility of escaping celebrity reference points altogether.
Or for me, a very obvious reference: "Escape From Alcatraz".
Why did the church aid and abet "the mass murderers of Jews" as they attempted to escape Allied justice (a reference to the role of high churchmen in helping ex-Nazis escape to South America)?
Mr Jarecki mentions it first in reference to his family, who emigrated to escape the Nazis, and again in reference to America's drug laws, the subject of his film.
She knew enough to know that familiar references escaped her, so instead of drawing attention to that fact, she would just acquiesce, hoping to catch up later.
Instead, he turned the occasion into an inventive intellectual exercise, full of allusions and references that would mostly escape the casual listener.
At least they all escape the known paradoxes of self-reference.
Because of their conjugation, they escape routine analysis, provided that there is no reference substance available.
