Hooray: We have a winner!!
Celia Polo Castillo is the one and only winner of our The Missing Link contest. Congratulations!!!
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???This was the “road map” we suggested in order to find “the missing link”
And this is Celia’s brilliant solution to the riddle
If you don’t get it, here is some explanation
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???The first steps were quite obvious: Quirk devoted most of his professional career as a linguist to study GRAMMAR
GRAMMAR GLAMOUR
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???But not everybody knows that the word GRAMMAR is etymologically related to GLAMOUR: click anywhere to find out the details
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???Some “glamourous” people: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and, of course, Sean Connery, who is “Sir”, like Quirk, and Scottish, like the word GLAMOUR
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In the 1960s glamour/glamorous produced GLAM by clippling.
Eg.: Wow! Isn't she glam!
And in the 1970s GLAM ROCK was “the next big thing” in the UK rock scene
glam rock (noun)Definition: U.K. 1970s pop music: a style of pop music in the U.K. in the 1970s performed by singers and musicians wearing outrageous clothes, makeup, hairstyles, and platform-soled boots. Its most famous exponents were the singers David Bowie, Gary Glitter and Marc Bolan and his band T-REX.
http://www.70sglamrock.com/David_Bowie.html
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David Bowie and Marc Bolan’s band T-REX were among GLAM ROCK’s most famous exponents
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In 1983 ‘someone’ released “Canciones Profanas, a record that included the song “Rey del Glam”. Guess who?
Click here to read the full lyrics,
REY DEL GLAMCon tu tacón de aguja los ojos pintados ,dos kilos de Rimmel ,muy negros los labios Te has quedado en el 73 con Bowie y T-Rex. Hombreras gigantescas Glitter en el pelo esmalte de uñas negro leopardo y cuero Te has quedado en el 73 con Bowie y T-Rex. Eres el Rey del Glam, nunca podrás cambiar ajeno a otras modas que vienen y van porque tú, tú, eres el Rey del Glam.
and here to watch the video
GRAMMAR GLAMOUR
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THAT’S RIGHT!
The Qeen of the Missing Link The King of GrammarEl Rey del Glam
CONGRATULATIONS!!!