Word: cupids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard Computer Society (HCS) automatically weed out the clearly incompatible and magically tell you who also thinks that "The Sound and the Fury" is the appropriate book title to describe their life. Never mind the fact that none of these people will ever talk to one another. This stupid cupid leaves a little intrigue in your life--who are you, Carmen Iglesias?--and technology has done all it can to bring some unlikely pairs together. Case closed...
...newest addition to the on-campus computerlove industry is Cupid. Cupid, which workssimilarly to DateSite, is part of a satiricalsite, theSpark.com. Founders Christopher R. Coyne'99 and his roommate Eli W. Bolotin '98-'99 alsolaunched the site on Monday after spending morethan a month developing it. Coyne and Bolotin,however, were motivated by more than justmatchmaking...
...Cupid creators also rely on word of mouthfor publicity--with success. Cupid has had morethan 4,000 hits, and more than 500 people haveentered their list of crushes. About one personvisits Cupid every minute...
According to Coyne, one difference betweenCupid and DateSite, which Cupid's creators did nothear about until the day before they launchedtheir own site, is that everyone can use the site,not just students...
Then there is the subject matter that these artists selected: there seems to be an overriding emphasis on the biblical and the classical. Brutus's wife, Portia, is here, swallowing her coals. Charming nymphs and satyrs, Psyche and Cupid, and Juno and Bacchus are portrayed next to angels, the Virgin, and Adam and Eve. But there are also some peasants, shepherds, portraits of anonymous females and beautiful studies of hands and nudes. With a little chalk and ink, the artists examined everything from the silly to the sacred...