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...unified front. But while they succeeded to that end, Republican leaders left unanswered for the American public the question of how representative their convention actually was. They discarded the sole challenge to their master scheme in a resounding defeat, voting down by a 910 to 434 margin the Steiger Amendment for reapportioning delegate distribution at the 1976 Convention. They vowed not to succumb to quota representation: at auspicious moments, they passed before the cameras a sampling of youth, women and minorities to prove their "Open Door" policy, but they failed to provide for enlargement of those groups four years hence...
...more closely tied to the work of the Convention--parts which seemed implicit in their invitations from the Republican National Committee--most accepted the cheerleader's role and were content to emulate the ways of their wealthy elders. Few could detail the platform or explain the intricacies of the Steiger Amendment...
Duck, You Sucker is even more frivolous than the usual Leone. The action, of which there is the customary abundance, takes place in Mexico during the waning days of the revolution. Rod Steiger swaggers through various robberies as a goodhearted, simple-minded bandido whose fondest dream is to knock over the bank in Mesa Verde. He gets his chance when he meets with James Coburn, who plays a fugitive I.R.A. revolutionary. How Coburn got from the Emerald Isle to Mexico, or why he is a fugitive, is left totally unexplained in the best Leone tradition. Coburn does...
...Steiger is too busy marveling at Coburn's practical skill with a stick of dynamite to bother his head about such questions. He tries to press Coburn into his big bank scheme, but, instead, Coburn slyly drafts Steiger into the revolution-the Mexican, that is, not the Irish. So many ambushes and detonations ensue that the viewer runs the risk of succumbing to a case of vicarious shell shock...
...gifted actors have banded together to produce plays that will help them attract that adorational enthusiasm. The group is called LARC (for Loose Actors Revolving Company), and it includes George C. Scott, George Grizzard, Anne Bancroft, Blythe Danner, Colleen Dewhurst, Julie Harris, Frank Langella, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Rod Steiger, Pat Hingle, Richard Kiley, Dustin Hoffman and quite a few others. They have, and they feel they ought to have, the determining voice on scripts. This is an error of the first order; actors are to scripts as seals are to fish...