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Written on 25 May, 1993 at 9:52 in
Movie Review | Author:
Kurt Gayle, Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman Unforgiven didn’t just win the Academy Award for best picture this year. It deserved to win. (How many times can you say that about a movie?) But if you’re looking for an old-fashioned good guy/bad guy/gunbattle-at-high-noon western—even of the vintage Eastwood “spaghetti” variety—forget it! Unforgiven will seem like accidentally picking up Dostoyevsky when you wanted Jack London.
Clint Eastwood’s character—a widowered pig farmer fighting to eke out a bare existence with his two young children—has a dark, murderous, alcoholic, gunfighter past. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 May, 1993 at 9:40 in
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Sabina McLuhan The story line of A Few Good Men is hardly novel: the macho world of the U.S. Marines with its own code of morality. When two young privates are court-martialed after killing one of their peers, a crusading attorney with the Navy’s Internal Affairs (Demi Moore) suspects the truth will be hidden with a cover-up. She makes it her mission to provoke the defence attorney (Tom Cruise) into working for his clients rather than going along with the cover-up.
The movie ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 May, 1993 at 9:35 in
Profiles | Author:
For those who choose life
Susan Scott
Special to the Interim Ashton Sharpe was born on Sunday November 8th, 1992 and for his teenage mother, Karen what began in fear has turned into unparalleled joy.
Frightened, confused and heartbroken, 19-year-old Karen Sharpe walked through the doors of Rosalie Hall of July of 1992. Like hundreds of women who had crossed the same threshold before her, Karen was about to discover healing, hope and true happiness in this special place.
Karen’s story began a few years earlier when she started to date the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 May, 1993 at 19:50 in
Movie Review | Author:
Annette MacDonald Over the past few months we have received some requests that The Interim begin a Movie Guide section. In this feature, we will help our readers pick entertaining movies and try to recommend those which are suitable for family viewing.
Our scope will include first-run movies as well as those available on video-cassette. In a short write-up, the reviewers will not only attempt to shed insight on the theme of the movie but also alert the potential viewers of the presence ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Mar, 1993 at 13:27 in
Book Review, Society & Culture | Author:
Julian A. Smith How many times have you taken your kids to a movie, or rented a video for them, only to be shocked by the gratuitous sex, violence and profanity that seem to have become so common in today’s films? It’s getting more and more difficult to find good movies these days; movies that both your whole family can enjoy, and that don’t put you to sleep.
There’s no shortage of movie guides out there; every year, you can pick up exhaustive film ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Mar, 1993 at 12:59 in
Politics, Pro-Life, Profiles | Author:
Charles Muggeridge Whatever happened to Joe Borowski? It’s one of the most common questions pro-lifers ask of the man who almost single-handedly took on the Canadian system in a monumental battle for the unborn.
From being on the leading edge of the pro-life battle for almost two decades, Borowski seems to many to have fallen off the face of the earth.
“I’m not dead,” he assures the Interim from his health food store in Winnipeg. “Right now we’re just treading water.”
Treading water for Joe ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Dec, 1992 at 7:59 in
Book Review, Society & Culture | Author:
David Dooley Ethics for High Schools
By Leonard A. Kennedy
Toronto: Life ethics Centre,
50 pages; soft cover; 1992, $2.00
In recent years, there has been an emphasis on students developing their own moral outlook through the analysis of ethical dilemmas, values clarification, and similar methods. In his short and readable booklet, however, Father Kennedy teaches that there is such a thing as objective truth and students ought to learn about it. It is irrational to say that one opinion is as good as another: “This ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Dec, 1992 at 7:54 in
Abortion, Book Review, Marriage and Family, Pro-Life, Society & Culture | Author:
Julian Smith Two years ago, York University professor and Olympic athlete William Gairdner surprised the Canadian political establishment with a trenchant and dramatic attack on its collectivist ideology. The Trouble with Canada: A Citizen Speaks Out lambasted the Canadian government, arguing that its emphasis on “top down” socialism and its concern with special interest groups had crippled popular democracy and eroded human rights and freedoms. Gairdner examined taxes, pensions, bilingualism, health care, politics, the Church, the Charter of Rights, and much more, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Dec, 1992 at 7:52 in
Book Review, Politics, Pro-Life, Society & Culture | Author:
David Dooley, The Interim Condom Sense: Questions and Answer
Ontario Ministry of Health June 1992,
In English and French, illustrated, 32 pp.
Reviewed by: David Dooley, The Interim
For all I know, Frances Lankin may be as scrupulous in her private life as she is unscrupulous in her public. As we do know, she has no qualms about funding Henry Morgentaler’s unsavoury business; she has no qualms either about letting her department publish, material designed to overcome the sense of shame young people might have in providing themselves ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Aug, 1992 at 9:06 in
Bioethics, Book Review, Marriage and Family | Author:
David Dooley “Prenatal human beings, even at the earliest stages of life, should be treated with appropriate respect as members of the human family and not viewed as commodities.”
For years Prof. Donald De Marco has been pointing out the damage to personal relationships which may result from the new reproductive technology.
Fatherhood and in-vitro babies
What happens to the concept of fatherhood, for example, when the sperm with which a woman is fertilized was donated by a medical student she never met, who was ... (Continue reading)
Written on 7 Oct, 1991 at 11:21 in
Music reviews | Author:
Reviewed by Janet Smith
This issue goes far beyond musical tastes because today much popular music is radically different from that of previous generations. The difference that much of today’s music has words and themes which openly emphasize and encourage such things as immoral sexual experiences and the use of drugs. Some songs, in fact, even have strong Satanic or occult themes. This cannot be overlooked by any responsible parent…”
It is with these words of warning from Billy Graham that Eric Barger begins ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Sep, 1991 at 8:50 in
Book Review | Author:
Diane Ellis Andrew Kimbrell
(New York, Harper Collins, 1993, pp 305, $29.50)
Selling ourselves piece by piece
In The Human Body Shop, Andrew Kimbrell has taken on the kind of challenge that would send most writers running for an ice pack and a darkened room. Not only has he set out to explain advances in medical and biological technologies to the non-scientist, but he discusses the biotech revolution in a historical context as an inevitable consequence of free-market economic theory.
Pro-lifers who try ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Sep, 1991 at 8:44 in
Book Review | Author:
Sue Careless
Joan Dower Kosmachuk
(Winnipeg, Windflower Communications, 1992, pp85, $6.95)
Pre-teen novel is no fairy tale
As a pro-life parent, it is always difficult to know just when and how to introduce the topic of abortion to one’s own children. Ever though, as adult activists, we grapple with the issue on a regular basis, the innocence of children also needs to be respected. At the same time it is important that the right perspective be presented before the pro-abortion message ... (Continue reading)
Written on 3 Aug, 1991 at 15:33 in
Book Review | Author:
David Dooley Late in 1990, Richard Snyder, chief executive of Simon & Schuster, read a book for which his firm had paid a large advance of $300,000.
It was a novel entitled American Psycho by a writer in his mid-twenties, Bret Easton Ellis.
Presumable Snyder had not read it before, but he was warned of the book’s contents by a Time article describing its scenes of torture and mutilation – including forcing a starving rat into the genitalia of a prostitute. Snyder quickly decided ... (Continue reading)
Written on 5 Jul, 1991 at 11:17 in
Book Review | Author:
David Dooley In December, 1985, twenty married couples from around the world who were members of Cardinal Gagnon’s Pontifical Council for the Family met in Rome to discuss Pope John Paul II’s teaching on Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI’s prophetic teaching on the family and the transmission of human life.
Their presentations, together with four papers presented by other members of the Council, have been collected into a book entitled Marriage & Family: Experiencing the Church’s Teaching in Married Life, published by Ignatius ... (Continue reading)
