Thandi wants lighter skin and to be an artist, both of which are simply modes of escape from her obligation to her family.
There are minor flaws in plotting, and occasional excesses - gorilla suits as modes of escape, or soft toys sentimentalised as road kill to make a point.
But perhaps this is a time for the film industry to stick its neck out a bit, to risk discovering new forms of realism and new modes of escape.
The album is meant for one of the few modes of escape where we can all still worship in peace: the road trip.
But it also explores the other modes of escape at the time, from using fake passports to fleeing via sewers, swimming across rivers, climbing the Wall, blowing a hole in it, hiding under the back seats of automobiles, and more-and the many dozens of East Germans slain by guards or Stasi in the process.
To make matters worse, social mobility is trending in the opposite direction, meaning traditional modes of escaping poverty such as educational attainment and skills training are mattering less and less.
Much attention is currently being focused on the proteosome, a key component of the antigen processing pathway, and it is hoped that these studies will generate a more thorough understanding of antigen presentation, enabling us to design strategies to thwart this mode of immune escape [ 25].
The goal, Mr. Montgomery said, was to get out of tourist mode, to escape that frame of mind that requires constant motion, constant presence at museums and concerts and restaurants.
This ferociously priapic and relentlessly concupiscent novel celebrates furtive masturbation, fellatio and sodomy as modes not only of escape and solace but also of protest and redemption.
One of the things many people in the diaspora have shared — unavoidably — is the experience of poverty, but Lawson's work suggests other, deeper vectors that may also connect us: certain gestures and interpersonal attitudes, strategies of escape, modes of defense or display, pleasures and fears, aesthetics, superstitions, and, perhaps most significant, shared fantasies.
