Word: patty
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they discuss conference topics: this morning it's the Quality of Life, this afternoon Education, tomorrow Leadership and Community Involvement. Soft-spoken Ralph Shain of Bellaire, Texas: "If you want to talk about coal gasification, the Federal Government hasn't yet licensed a single plant." Dark-eyed Patti Anderson of Granby, Colo.: "The population of the underdeveloped countries will double in 20 years, but they're not going to start having fewer children when three out of four die before reaching adulthood...
...Tennis Ace Jimmy Connors, 26, was it love and match? Mischievous Jimmy would say naught, but friends revealed that he had secretly wed Playboy's 1977 Playmate of the Year Patti McGuire, 27, his constant companion (along with his mother, of course) since the two met last year at a Los Angeles disco. Only trouble was, the friends were vague about the ceremony. They said it took place last October on a mountainside outside Tokyo while Connors was nursing an ankle injury. Whatever happened in Japan, they were definitely married in a civil ceremony in February in St. Louis...
...MAJOR THEME comes out early. Sex. Or love if you like. Patti (Patty Woo), facing the classic problem of all hopeless romantics in "Used To," the third song of the evening, gives up her search for an Aryan demigod when swept away by a sweet schlep. Though we never found out just how long it was before her affair crashed, Woo's lovelorn overachiever presages the cast's comprehensive review of their dealings with boys from a casual come hither to determined attempts to do without...
...caught the moods and feelings of the players throughout the first act. Composed by Ravenal and arranged by her with Pat Powers and Michael Schubert, it flowed from standard pop to jazz to a wonderful Carpenters imitation in the song "Mister Ivy," a song of passionate yearning in which Patti's quest comrades. (Ravenal also demonstrates her knack for a turn of phrase when Patti describes the most meaningful experience in her life--teaching an orphan to swim while getting 780/810 board scores...
Klemesrud aside for a moment, some credit is due to Esquire for a cover and cover story which has the potential to stir up the much-bedraggled women's movement. It's not so much the picture of Patti Hensen, hands on hips and bust wrapped in tight purple satin ("The next poster queen"), that might startle serious readers of the traditionally male-oriented magazine. Rather it is the stupidly stated fact this is "The year of the Lusty Woman--It's all right to be a sex object again...