For many, French Polynesia is a place to escape for a vacation or honeymoon to bask along the white sand beaches while sipping on umbrella drinks.
Russert moved his father, a former sanitation worker, to a nursing facility last week and had escaped for a brief vacation in Italy with his wife, Vanity Fair writer Maureen Orth, and their son, Luke, before returning to Washington Thursday.
So if you're looking for a break from all the summer family fare and Shakespearean verse, try his new drama, "Red Light Winter," about two college buddies who escape Manhattan for a vacation in the red-light district of Amsterdam; Merle Reskin Garage Theater (May 29-June 26).
Ron Wood, who owns a small public-relations agency in Island Park, said he escapes for an annual winter vacation to a tropical climate, in part to clear his head for better strategic thinking.
And at their best, the pools enabled members of all classes, including those for whom vacations were undreamed of, to escape for a time the stupefying heat and frolic in the waters.
European officials hoped they would at least be able to escape for their August vacations before returning to the line of fire.
I've been living in Vermont for 25 years, and I can't think of a better town for a vacation escape than Stowe.
Fronting one of those impossibly pristine Finnish lakes, they are the typical wooden red houses where Finns escape for a month's vacation every summer.
My phone must have escaped from my pocket in the cab -- the poor thing was probably so overworked it was looking for a vacation -- now what?
"For a vacation," he said.
