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This Johnny was just a wig and a smear of lipstick on a clenched fist, but he made Señor Wences that rarest of performers, a genuinely funny ventriloquist.
She dutifully describes the big dramas that got Ms. ' editors all riled up--the crusade for and defeat of the ERA; the smear campaign in 1975 by the radical Redstockings, who attacked Steinem for work she'd done a decade earlier on behalf of a liberal cause that had CIA backing; the nationwide women's conference in Houston in 1977.
A reader wrote in to suggest that the writers clone Livia and create a twin who's a nun in San Francisco and sweet as a lamb and who can't believe the things she's hearing about her nephew on TV, it's such a horrible smear on Italian-Americans.
Having read David Brock's essay in the July Esquire , I am aware of his penchant for the witless smear.
Immunoblot analysis of the precipitates with anti-FLAG antibodies detected a higher molecular weight smear only upon co-expression of FLAG-COP1 and His-Ub, therefore confirming that COP1 is indeed a ubiquitination substrate (Fig.