At first, what mattered was the sparky contents of Sontag’s head; by the end she was best known for the way she wore her hair – that saturnine battle helmet of dyed black, with a single stripe left white at the temple like a Frankensteinian lighting bolt of intellect.

There are two modes of roasting: One is to use a tin kitchen before an open fire, and the other, and more common way, is to use a hot oven.

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Tammany members could visualize Indian contemporaries — the challenging savages on the border — as simply predead Indians who, upon dying, would become historical, locked in a grand narrative of inevitable American progress.