Philadelphia Meetup: Sunday 12/6, Postrel’s _The Power of Glamour_-- Winfrey/Moore video link added
1:00 PM, December 6, Nam Phuong (Vietnamese restaurant), 1100 Washington Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19147 (west side of street, just south of Washington)
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/09/the-persistence-of-glamour.html
The topic is Postrel’s The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion—a category of visual images which sometimes cause people to change their lives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPd77roTra4
This is a video about Oprah having been inspired by Mary Tyler Moore. Oprah was inspired by the Mary Tyler Moore show, and eventually had a video made of herself in the opening bit for the Mary Tyler Moore Show and had Mary Tyler Moore on her own show.
Wow—quite an emotive piece. I suppose that very fact illustrates the point.