Word: sparkless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...didn't have one. A lot of the stories her friends related amused her. The others frightened or angered her. Leslie Randall and her roommate, for example, had grown tired of being alone, feeling wounded and rejected, or of going to parties and trying to make sparkling conversation with sparkless companions. So they started inventing crazy things to do. For several weeks, they went to mixers and parties together and pretended they were from Wellesley. When they tired of that game, they would dress identically and outrageously, dripping with makeup and glitter. They appeared loftily bizarre and danced and spoke...