The candidate, or President as the case may be, wanders the stage looking thoughtful, pensively wagging his wireless microphone.

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Meanwhile Nelisiwe Mbuli stares pensively for almost a minute trying to answer why she has never been and probably would not go to Foundation, a white club that sometimes plays the house music she loves.

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"The Afghans couldn't swim, " he comments pensively.

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Both as Wayne and as super-Wayne he seems indifferent, as the films themselves are, to the activities of little people, and to the claims of the everyday, preferring to semi-purse his lips, as if preparing to whistle for an errant dog, and stare pensively into the distance.

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