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Article: DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN IMAGES AND ALLIES SHIFT FOR MAN WHO "LOVES BEING SENATOR".(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- July 20, 1986
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Byline: David Remnick
Has teevee land ever seen a man so tickled as Daniel Patrick Moynihan?
As he describes the plight of the American family to Phil Donahue, the senator's knees lock and his shoe tips wag. His bushy brows hump up like two millipedes on a twig, then ascend to his thatchy forelock. When the audience applauds him, Moynihan applauds back. And as the clapping flattens into a roar, his mouth goes pursy, forming a fleshy Irish rose.
His daughter Maura - late of Harvard and the rock group the Same - has seen the look before. "Dad's mouth gets like that when he's happy," she says.
"One thing about my father you should know," ...