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...based in Durban on the coast, told me of a woman at a public meeting who asked whether the ANC would really take over her house after the elections. Apparently, a man had knocked at her door, asked for a glass of water, and returned it with a R2 coin at the bottom "as down payment for your house...

Author: By Nichola M. Beukes, | Title: Behind the Headlines | 4/28/1994 | See Source »

Wali says she believes customers are trying to "buy their childhood memories. They come in and say, `Oh, boy, R2...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Man From Atlantis Boldly Goes Where No Harvard Square Store Has Gone Before | 12/12/1992 | See Source »

...been there for two weeks now, a strange R2-D2-like sculpture on the corner of Garden Street and Garden Terrace, one block past the Radcliffe Quadrangle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junk Sculpture Decorates Garden St. | 9/29/1984 | See Source »

...cause of all the hullabaloo is a jaunty, cream-colored computer that will sell for $2,495. From the side, Macintosh looks like an offspring of E.T. and R2-D2 that might start walking. But the fuss is also about Apple, the company that likes to say it invented the personal computer. If Apple is to beat back IBM and continue the whirlwind progress that has taken it on a seven-year ride from manufacturing in a California garage to annual sales of $1 billion, Macintosh must be a triumph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Apple Launches a Mac Attack | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...often in disguise, Han's friends come to rescue him: first that robotic dynamic duo, See-Threepio (C-3PO), the gold-plated neurotic with a proper English accent (Anthony Daniels), and Artoo-Detoo (R2-D2), who looks like a tank-type vacuum cleaner but has the heart of a lion. Then Solo's bearlike copilot Chewbacca, the 7-ft. 5-in. Wookie; the feisty Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher); and Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams), the smooth-talking leader of The Empire Strikes Back's Cloud City. And finally the hero, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), who already has many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Galloping Galaxies! | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

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