Word: patty
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hand in hand and smiling hopefully last week as they left St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, Calif., Patti and Samuel Frustaci could hardly have been anything but quintessentially proud parents. Though two of their seven tiny infants had not survived the largest U.S. multiple birth ever, the remaining five were clinging to life and now have names. Previously dubbed babies A to E, they are Patricia Ann, James Martin, Stephen Earl, Bonnie Marie and Richard Charles. "They're beautiful," said Mrs. Frustaci. "I just hope they live." All have a better than fifty-fifty chance of survival. But James Martin...
...title role, Richard Thomas makes the transformation from naive youth to tortured victim to avenging superhero with startling eclat. Roscoe Lee Browne, Patti LuPone, Michael O'Keefe and Zakes Mokae all have riveting individual moments, yet seem completely in step with Sellars' overall vision. In one swoop, Sellars has brought a fresh burst of energy to America's long- running quest for a true national theater. And that is what being a wunderkind is all about...
...Patti Frustaci, a high school English teacher, added 70 lbs. to her 115-lb. frame while carrying the septuplets. Surprised by her large size early in her pregnancy, doctors scheduled an ultrasound examination that detected three fetuses. A later sonogram revealed seven babies in her womb. The Frustacis were dazed. Recalled Sam: "I said to Patti, 'Dogs have litters...
...delay the birth as long as possible, Patti was confined to bed at St. Joseph on March 25 and given a drug to prevent labor. Meanwhile the staff held rehearsals for the coming event. Then last week, when Patti began having trouble breathing (the seven babies were pressing against her diaphragm) and her blood pressure shot up, doctors decided to deliver the infants. Later, the father for several minutes held his stillborn 15.5-oz. daughter, who doctors think died several days before the birth. Said Sam Frustaci, who like Patti is a devout Mormon: "The Heavenly Father had alternative plans...
...millions who can see it as a 3-hr. TV special on NBC this Sunday. As befitted a night devoted to fond memories, it generated a few more. There was something old: Martha Reeves, looking better than ever as she reprised her Vandellas anthem, Nowhere to Run. Something new: Patti LaBelle joining Joe Cocker in an unlikely but inspired duet of his You Are So Beautiful. Something borrowed: the Four Tops stepping in at a moment's notice to sing backup to Boy George and Stevie Wonder in his new Part Time Lover. And something blue: Marilyn McCoo's rendition...