Word: prise
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Walk around the contemporary photo-media works of the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art - at the Art Gallery of South Australia through May 30 - and death is everywhere. For visitors who can prise themselves away from Mike Parr, filmed sewing his face together in a kind of grimacing death mask, there's Adam Geczy's video elegy for the Port Arthur massacre, and TV footage of the Moscow theater siege glimpsed through the living-room curtains of Linda Wallace's installation Entanglements, 2004. Then there's the wicked whack of Destiny Deacon's bloodied boomerang in her enlarged Polaroid...
...good vibe in Canberra and Washington. The relationship between the two national leaders could hardly be better: both support free trade in principle, and they fought as allies in Afghanistan and Iraq. Congress had given Bush fast-track approval to pursue FTAs; Howard saw a chance to prise open the U.S. agricultural market. This FTA (following agreements between Australia and New Zealand and between the U.S. and Canada) is only the third between developed nations. Many minor FTAs are being written that have not required the toil and sweat of the AUSFTA. But as with exercise, no pain, no gain...