swanker

For much of its so-called classical age, the film industry simultaneously embraced a cultural puritanism onscreen and a happy, shiny front for the public lives of its starry personnel, who were packaged as being as ordinary, domesticated, middle class and white as its targeted audience, just with fancier clothing, swanker cars and better teeth.

"And I never shake hands with a swanker, do I, Bonser?"

"He's a swanker," was the greeting of Miss Press, as she offered her hand and then withdrew it playfully before Mr. Harper could take it.

"But he's a swanker," said Miss Press.

Phuphuma Love Minus is joined by the opera, gospel and pop singer Ann Masina, a formidably large woman with an even bigger voice; the powerful Xolisile Bongwana; and Vusumuzi Kunene, a swanker, or participant in stylized dress competitions.